[Intro]
D  A7/C#  Bm7  A7  Gmaj7  A  D  A  D
[Strophe]
     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."
[Refrain]
      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.
[Strophe]
    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:
[Refrain]
      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.
[Strophe]
    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:
[Refrain]
      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)