C                                      G       C
When I was just a lad of ten my father said to me
     C                                      G      C
Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree
      F                                        C       F
Don't put your faith in love my boy, my father said to me
  F                                             C      F
I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree

[Chorus]
      C                                        G
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
        G                                        C
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat
      C                                        G
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
        G                                        C     A7
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat

[Verse 2]
    D                                      A     D
One day beneath the lemon tree my love and I did lie
  D                                                 A      D
A girl so sweet that when she smiled the stars rose in the sky
   G                                           D     G
We passed that summer lost in love beneath the lemon tree
    G                                     D          G
The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me

[Chorus]
      D                                        A
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
        A                                        D
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat
      D                                        A
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
        A                                        D
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat

      D                                        A
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
        A                                        D
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat
      D                                        A
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet