Lemon Tree Chords & Lyrics by The Seekers
Lemon Tree
guitar chords lyrics
Lemon Tree:The Searchers.
Album - Roving With The Seekers - 1964.
INTRO: E F#m Abm A E B E
#1.
E F#m G#m F#m E F#m G#m
When I was but a little boy, my father said to me,
E F#m G#m A E B E E7
come here and learn a lesson, from the lovely lemon tree.
A Bm C#m Bm A Bm C#m
My son, it's most impor..tant, my father said to me,
A Bm C#m D A E A
to put your trust in what you feel, and not in what you see.
CHORUS:
A D A
Lemon tree very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
A7 D
But the fruit of the poor lemon is im..possible to eat.
D A
Lemon tree very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
A7 D B
But the fruit of the poor lemon is im..possible to eat.
#2.
E F#m G#m F#m E F#m G#m
Beneath that lemon tree one day, my love and I did lie,
E F#m Ab A E B E E7
A girl so sweet that when she smiled, the sun rose in the sky.
A Bm C#m Bm A Bm C#m
We spent that summer lost in love, beneath that lemon tree..
A Bm C#m D A E A
the magic of her laughter hid my father's words from me.
CHORUS:
A D A
Lemon tree very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
A7 D
But the fruit of the poor lemon is im..possible to eat.
D A
Lemon tree very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
A7 D B
But the fruit of the poor lemon is im..possible to eat.
#3.
E F#m G#m F#m E F#m G#m
One day she left without a word..she took away the sun.
E F#m G#m A E B E
And in the dark she left behind, I knew what she had done.
A Bm C#m Bm A Bm C#m
She left me for an..other man, it's a common tale, but true.
A Bm C#m D A E A
A sadder man but wiser now, I sing these words to you.
CHORUS:
A D A
Lemon tree very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
A7 D
But the fruit of the poor lemon is im..possible to eat.
D A
Lemon tree very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
A7 D
But the fruit of the poor lemon is im..possible to eat.
OUTRO:
D
Lemon tree, very pretty..(x3)(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
