Mesut Seyhanlı                        Peter, Paul & Mary
mesuts@sim.net.tr

           LEMON TREE

      D   G   A   G   D   A7   D

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

{Chorus}
     --    C          /               /               G
     Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
             /                 /          /           C
     But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
           C          /               /               G
     Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
             /                 /                      C      |C   A7  |
     But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.


    D     D\A       D     D\A      D        D\A     D    D\A
One day beneath the lemon tree, my love and I   did lay,
  D       D\A        Bm       Bm\A        G          A7     D
A girl so sweet that when she smiled, the stars rose in the sky.
   G           F      G       F       G         F     G      /
We passed that summer lost in love, beneath the lemon tree,
    G     F      G        F        G        D7         G
The music of her laughter   hid my father's words from me.

{Chorus}

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

{Chorus}

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