Lemon Tree chords by Trini Lopez

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
Bb majorBb FF Bb majorBb FF

Verse:
   C majorC       FF       G minorGm    C majorC   FF
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."

Chorus:
    Bb majorBb     FF        Bb majorBb   C majorC    FF
Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet
      C majorC      G minorGm    FF  C majorC    FF
But the fruit of the lemon is impossible to eat
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Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet
      C majorC      G minorGm    FF  C majorC    FF
But the fruit of the lemon is impossible to eat

Verse:
   C majorC        FF       G minorGm    C majorC   FF
One day beneath the lemon tree, my love and I did lie
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A augmentedA 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

Chorus:
    Bb majorBb     FF        Bb majorBb   C majorC    FF
Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet
      C majorC      G minorGm    FF  C majorC    FF
But the fruit of the lemon is impossible to eat
    Bb majorBb     FF        Bb majorBb   C majorC    FF
Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet
      C majorC      G minorGm    FF  C majorC    FF
But the fruit of the lemon is impossible to eat

Verse:
   C majorC       FF       G minorGm    C majorC   FF
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, it's a common tale but true
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