The rubber tree had multiple uses that needed only to be discovered.
And this led to the Peter, Paul & Mary tribute "Rubber Tree"
When I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me,
Come here and learn a lesson from the lovely rubber tree.
Don’t put your faith in love, my boy, my father said to me,
I fear you’ll find that love is like the lovely rubber tree.
rubber tree very pretty and the rubber flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor rubber is impossible to eat.
rubber tree very pretty and the rubber flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor rubber is impossible to eat.
Beneath the rubber tree one day, my love and I did a lie
A girl so sweet that when she smiled the sun rose in the sky.
We passed that summer lost in love beneath the rubber tree
The music of her laughter hid my father’s words from me:
rubber tree very pretty and the rubber flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor rubber is impossible to eat.
rubber tree very pretty and the rubber flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor rubber is impossible to eat.
One day she left without a word. she took away the sun.
And in the dark she left behind, I knew what she had done.
She’d left me for another, it’s a common tale but true.
A sadder man but wiser now I sing these words to you:
rubber tree very pretty and the rubber flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor rubber is impossible to eat.
rubber tree very pretty and the rubber flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor rubber is impossible to eat.
I remember that song... LOL!