C G7 C G7 C
When I was just a lad of ten my father said to me
G7 C G7 C
Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree
F C F C F
Don't put your faith in love my boy my father said to me
C F C F
I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree
C G7
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
G7 C G7 C
One day beneath the lemon tree my love and I did lie
G7 C G7 C
A girl so sweet that when she smiled the stars rose in the sky
F C F C F
We passed that summer lost in love beneath the lemon tree
C F C F
The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me
C G7
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