Bobby Bare - Lemon Tree Chords

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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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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

                                                 C
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

                                                 C
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat

                                               G7
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

                                                 C
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat