Published: 2017-05-30 13:44 Selection chords: Ethan Cooper
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When I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me
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"Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree"
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"Donʼt put your faith in love, my boy" my father said to me
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"I fear youʼll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree"
Chorus:
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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 fatherʼs words from me
Chorus:
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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 left me for another, itʼs a common tale but true
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A sadder man, but wiser now, I sing these words to you
Chorus:
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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
