Lemon Tree Chords by The Brothers Four

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_ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ [F] _ _ [C] _
_ [F] _ _ _ When I was just a lad of ten, my [C] father [F] said to me,
_ Come [Am] here and [F] learn a lesson from [Bb] the [Am] lovely lemon [F] tree.
_ [Bb] Don't put [F] your faith [Bb] in love, my boy, [F] my father [Gm] said to me,
[Bb] I fear [F] you'll [Bb] find that love is like [Eb] the [F] lovely lemon _
[Bb] tree.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] Lemon tree, very pretty, _ and the lemon flower [Bb] is sweet,
But the fruit of the poor lemon _ is [Gm] impossible [Eb] to eat.
_ Lemon tree, _ very pretty, _ and the lemon flower [Bb] is sweet,
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible _ [Eb] to eat.
_ [F] _
_ _ _ _ Beneath the lemon tree one day, [Am] my love and [F] I did lie,
_ A girl [Am] so sweet that when she [Bb] smiled, the [C] sun rose [F] in the sky.
We [Bb] passed the summer lost in love [Dm] beneath the lemon [Gm]
tree,
_ The music [F] [Bb] of her laughter hid [Eb] my [F] father's words [Bb] from _ me.
_ Lemon _ [Eb]
tree, very pretty, _ and the lemon flower [Bb] is sweet,
But the fruit of the poor lemon _ is impossible [Eb] to eat.
_ Lemon tree, _ very pretty, _ and the lemon flower [Bb] is sweet,
But the fruit of the poor lemon _ is impossible _ [Eb] to eat.
_ _ [F] _
_ _ One day [C] she left [F]
without a word, she [C] took away [F] the sun,
_ And in [Am] the dark [Dm] she left behind, [Bb] I [C] knew what she [F] had done.
_ She left me for [Bb] another, _ _ it's a [Dm] common [Gm] tale but true,
_ [F] A sadder [Bb] man but wiser now, [Eb] I sing [F] these words [Bb] to you.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] Lemon tree, _ very pretty, _ and the lemon flower [Bb] is sweet,
But the fruit of the poor lemon is [Gm] impossible [Eb] to eat.
_ Lemon tree, _ very pretty, _ and the lemon flower [Bb] is sweet,
But the fruit of the poor lemon is _ impossible [Eb] to eat.
Lemon [Bb] tree, _ _ _ _ [Eb] lemon tree.
_ _ _ _ [Bb] Lemon _ _ _ tree, _ [Eb] lemon _ tree.
_ _ _ [Bb] Lemon tree, _ _ _ _ [Eb] lemon tree.
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