Peter, Paul & Mary - Lemon Tree Chords

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