LEMON TREE    (Listen to sample)

 

              D        A       D                               A         D

1.    When I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me,

                               A        D                       A        A7         D

   "Come here and take a lesson from the lovely Lemon Tree."

               G            D         G                                     D        G

    "Don't put your faith in love, my boy", my father said to me,

          e             D           G        e           C        D           G

    "I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely Lemon Tree."

 

  G7      C                                                                  G

Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,

                                                        G7              C

but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.

                                                                                G

Lemon Tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet,

                                                G7             C 

but the fruit of the lemon is impossible to eat.

 

   - A           D         A             D                                     A      D

2.         One day beneath the Lemon Tree, my love and I did lie,

                       A              D                             A            A7       D

    a girl so sweet that when she smiled the stars rose in the sky.

            G                 D           G                                    D         G

    We passed that summer lost in love, beneath the lemon tree,

             e      D         G           e         C            D              G

    the music of her laughter hid my father's words from me: + CHORUS

 

   - A           D          A         D                                   A          D

3.         One day she left without a word, she took away the sun,

                       A           D                     A             A7          D

    and in the dark she left behind, I knew what she had done.

               G         D      G                                D          G

    She'd left me for another, it's a common tale but true,

         e           D           G        e       C                D           G

    a sadder man but wiser now, I sing these words to you: + CHORUS

      G          C          G         C

    Lemon tree,       lemon tree.

 

(capo 1st)                  (Peter, Paul & Mary)