Lemmon Tree

Lemon Tree
Recorded by Bobby Bare
written by Will Holt

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When I was just a lass 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 girl 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
                                                 G
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 boy so sweet that when he smiled the stars rose in the sky
   C           G      C                        G     C
We passed that summer lost in love beneath the lemon tree
             G        C                   G          C
The music of his laughter hid my father's words from me

Repeat #2

One day she left without a word, she took away the sun
and in the darkness she had left I knew what she had done
she left me for another, it's a common tale but true
a sadder gal, but wiser now, I sing these words to you