Lemon Tree Chords by The Brothers Four

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[Bb] _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _
_ [F] _ _ _ When I [C] was just [F] a lad of ten, my father [C]
[F] said to me,
_ Come [Am] here and [F] learn a lesson from the [C] lovely lemon [F] tree.
_ Don't put your faith [Bb] in love, my boy, [Dm] my father [Gm] said to me,
[Bb] I fear [F] you'll [Bb] find that love is like [Eb] the [F] lovely [Bb] lemon tree.
_ _ _ Lemon [Eb]
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] _
_ _ _ _ [C] Beneath the [F] lemon tree one day, [C] 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,
_ [Bb] The music of her laughter hid [Eb] my [Dm] 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.
_ [Bb] She left me for another, _ it's a common [Dm] tale [Gm] but true,
_ A [F] sadder man [Bb] but wiser now, [Eb] I sing [F] these words [Bb] to you.
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Lemon 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.
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