Lemon Tree:The Searchers.
Album - Roving With The Seekers - 1964.

INTRO:       

#1.
          
When I was but

        
 a little boy,

          
 my father sai

     
d to me,
             
come here and 

        
learn a lesson

            
, from the lov

           
ely lemon tree


.
            
My son, it's m

        
ost impor..tan

            
t, my father s

      
aid to me,
           
to put your tr

           
ust in what yo

            
u feel, and no

             
t in what you 


see.

CHORUS:
            
Lemon tree ver

              
y pretty, and 

              
the lemon flow

      
er is sweet,
              
But the fruit 

              
of the poor le

            
mon is im..pos

         
sible to eat.
             
Lemon tree ver

              
y pretty, and 

              
the lemon flow

      
er is sweet,
              
But the fruit 

              
of the poor le

            
mon is im..pos

            
sible to eat.

#2.
            
Beneath that l

#         
emon tree one 

          
day, my love a

      
nd I did lie,
          
A girl so swee

            
t that when sh

             
e smiled, the 

            
sun rose in th

    
e sky.
             
We spent that 

         
summer lost in

           
 love, beneath

          
 that lemon tr


ee..
           
the magic of h

          
er laughter hi

             
d my father's 

          
words from me.

CHORUS:
            
Lemon tree ver

              
y pretty, and 

              
the lemon flow

      
er is sweet,
              
But the fruit 

              
of the poor le

            
mon is im..pos

         
sible to eat.
             
Lemon tree ver

              
y pretty, and 

              
the lemon flow

      
er is sweet,
              
But the fruit 

              
of the poor le

            
mon is im..pos

            
sible to eat.

#3.
           
One day she le

         
ft without a w

#           
ord..she took 

      
away the sun.
          
And in the dar

          
k she left beh

             
ind, I knew wh

          
at she had don

e.
           
She left me fo

         
r an..other ma

             
n, it's a comm

           
on tale, but t

#
rue.
           
A sadder man b

          
ut wiser now, 

            
I sing these w

        
ords to you.
 
CHORUS:
            
Lemon tree ver

              
y pretty, and 

              
the lemon flow

      
er is sweet,
              
But the fruit 

              
of the poor le

            
mon is im..pos

         
sible to eat.
             
Lemon tree ver

              
y pretty, and 

              
the lemon flow

      
er is sweet,
              
But the fruit 

              
of the poor le

            
mon is im..pos

            
sible to eat.

OUTRO:

Lemon tree, ve

ry pretty..(x3

)(Fade.)


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