Artist: | Peter, Paul & Mary (English) |
User: | Waeller Wutz |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
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Titel: Lemon Tree
Artist: Peter, Paul & Mary
Album: Lemon Tree & Other Great Songs (1993)
(Will Holt)
(Orig.: E)
Intro: E A B E
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When I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me,
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"Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree."
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"Don't put your faith in love, my boy", my father said to me,
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"I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree."
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Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
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But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
D A
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
D
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
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One day beneath the lemon tree, my love and I did lie
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A girl so sweet that when she smiled the stars rose in the sky.
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We passed that summer lost in love beneath the lemon tree
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The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me:
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Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
D
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
D A
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
D
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
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One day she left without a word. She took away the sun.
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And in the dark she'd left behind, I knew what she had done.
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She'd left me for another, it's a common tale but true.
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A sadder man but wiser now I sing these words to you:
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Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
D
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
D A
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
D
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
Lemon tree ....