Lemon Tree

Intro: F Bb

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

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Lemon tree, very pretty, and the 
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lemon flower is sweet,
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But the fruit of the lemon    is 
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impossible to eat.
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Lemon tree, very pretty, and the 
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lemon flower is sweet,
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But the fruit of the lemon is 
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impossible to eat.

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

Chorus

One day she left without a word, she
 took away the sun.
And in the dark she left behind, I 
knew what she had done.
She left me for another, it's a 
common tale but true,
A sadder tale, but wiser now, I sing
 these words to you.

Chorus