Lemon Tree Chords by Peter, Paul and Mary

[Start]

[Verse]
E C#m A E B E
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     E                                           
When I was just a lad of ten my father said to me
                     C#m             B7           E   
Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree
A              G        A              G              F#m7
Don't put your faith in love my boy my father said to me  
F                  A                 Bm7 Esus4  E7    A7  
I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree


[Chorus]
D                                           A7      
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
                                              G     
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat
D                                           A7      
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
                                                 E  
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat
        B7          E                      B7    E  
One day beneath the lemon tree my love and I did lie
                                               A           E  
A girl so sweet that when she smiled the stars rose in the sky


[Verse]
          G                A               G         F#m7
We passed that summer lost in love beneath the lemon tree
    F            A               Bm7      E7         A7
The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me


[Chorus]
D                                    A7             
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
A7                                                  
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat
D          G           D                       A    
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
                                              F#m7 B7 
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to   eat
E       B7       E                              B7     
One day she left ■ without a word she took away the sun
E                               A      B                
And in the dark she left behind I knew what she had done
E     A       G           A7            A            
She'd left me for another it's a common tale but true
G F              Esus4     A Esus4            A     
A sadder man but wiser now I sing these words to you
Bm7   E7   D         
Lemon tree lemon tree
                 A7  
Lemon tree lemon tree
D G A A7 D A D A
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A7 D A D
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