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Version 2G D G G D G When I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me, G D C D G "Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree. C G F C G C Don't put your faith in love my boy," my father said to me. C G F G F G C "I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree." <chorus>: D7 G C G C G C D Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet, D D G But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat. G C G C G C D Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet, C D C D7 G But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat. G D G G D G One day beneath the lemon tree my love and I did lie. G D C D C D G A girl so sweet that when she smiled the stars rose in the sky. C G F C C G C We passed that summer lost in love beneath the lemon tree. C G F G F G C The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me. <chorus> G D G G D G One day she left without a word, she took away the sun. G D C D C D G And in the dark she left behind, I knew what she had done. C G C C G C She left me for another, it's a common tale but true. C G F G F G C A sadder man but wiser now, I sing these words to you. <chorus>