Peter, Paul and Mary – Lemon Tree (Guitar)

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When I was just a lad of ten, my mother said to me,

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"Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree."

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

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"I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree."

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Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

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

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Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

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

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One day beneath the lemon tree, my love and I did lie

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

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We passed that summer lost in love beneath the lemon tree

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

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Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

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

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Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

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

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

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

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

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A sadder man but wiser now I sing these words to you:

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Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

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

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Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

        G7                G7         G7          C
but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.

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Lemon tree (lemon tree)

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Lemon tree (lemon tree)

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Lemon tree (lemon tree)

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Lemon tree (lemon tree)