G     D      G              G      D       G
When I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me,
      G        D      C                      D     G
"Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree.
      C        G        F       C               G       C
Don't put your faith in love my boy," my father said to me.
   C           G         F       G        F      G     C
"I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree."


 
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  D7    
  G     
  C    
  G       
  C       
  G     
  C         
  D
Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
        
  D                            
  D           
  G
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
      
  G     
  C    
  G       
  C       
  G     
  C         
  D
Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
        
  C     
  D                      
  C    
  D7     
  G
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.

    
  G     
  D         
  G             
  G        
  D     
  G
One day beneath the lemon tree my love and I did lie.
  
  G       
  D          
  C        
  D          
  C          
  D      
  G
A girl so sweet that when she smiled the stars rose in the sky.
   
  C           
  G      
  F       
  C      
  C         
  G     
  C
We passed that summer lost in love beneath the lemon tree.
    
  C     
  G      
  F        
  G      
  F        
  G          
  C
The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me.


   
   G 
   D 
   G 
   G 
   D 
   G One day she left without a word, she took away the sun. 
   G 
   D 
   C 
   D 
   C 
   D 
   G And in the dark she left behind, I knew what she had done. 
   C 
   G 
   C 
   C 
   G 
   C She left me for another, it's a common tale but true. 
   C 
   G 
   F 
   G 
   F 
   G 
   C A sadder man but wiser now, I sing these words to you.

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