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Lemon Tree by Peter, Paul and Mary - Guitar Chords

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Version 1 
            [Intro]
D  A7/C#  Bm7  A7  Gmaj7  A  D  A  D


[Verse 1]
     D     A7     D              D      A7      D
When I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me,
      D        A7/C#  Bm     D/A      G6     A7    D
"Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree."
       G        F        G                 G      F       Em
"Don't put your faith in love, my boy", my father said to me,
   D#                    G                Am7    D7    G7
"I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree."


[Chorus]
      C    F    C      F       C     F         G7
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
        G7                G7         G7          C
but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
      C    F    C      F       C     F         G7
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
        G7                G7         G7          C     A7
but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.


[Verse 2]
    D     A7        D          D            A7    D
One day beneath the lemon tree, my love and I did lie
  D       A7/C#      Bm       D/A        G6         A7     D
A girl so sweet that when she smiled the stars rose in the sky.
   G           F      G              G         F     Em
We passed that summer lost in love beneath the lemon tree
    D#           G               Am7      D7         G7
the music of her laughter hid my father's words from me:


[Chorus]
      C    F    C      F       C     F         G7
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
        G7                G7         G7          C
but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
      C    F    C      F       C     F         G7
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
        G7                G7         G7          C     A7
but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.


[Verse 3]
    D       A7       D          D          A7      D
One day she left without a word. She took away the sun.
    D      A7/C#    Bm     D/A     G6        A7      D
And in the dark she left behind, I knew what she had done.
      G       F     G             G      F        Em
She'd left me for another, it's a common tale but true.
  D#             G           Am7        D7       G7
A sadder man but wiser now I sing these words to you:


[Chorus]
      C    F    C      F       C     F         G7
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
        G7                G7         G7          C
but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
      C    F    C      F       C     F         G7
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
        G7                G7         G7          C
but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.


[Outro]
      G
Lemon tree (lemon tree)
      C
Lemon tree (lemon tree)
      G
Lemon tree (lemon tree)
      C                 C
Lemon tree (lemon tree)

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