{"id":12145,"date":"2022-08-02T20:15:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T20:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=12145"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:36:59","slug":"lemon-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/lemon-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemon Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

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::  <\/span>When [G] I was just a lad of ten, my father [D] said to [G] me,  \r\n<\/span><\/span>\"Come [G] here and take a [C] lesson from the [D] lovely lemon [G] tree. \r\n<\/span><\/span>Don't [C] put your faith in [F] love my boy,\" my [C] father [G] said to [C] me.  <\/span><\/span>\"I [C] fear you'll find that [F] love is like the [C] lovely [G] lemon [C] tree.\" - - - [D7]<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n{ CHORUS } [D7]   <\/span><\/span>Lemon [G] tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is [C] sweet,   b<\/span><\/span>ut the [D] fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to [G] eat.  \r\n<\/span><\/span>[G] Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is [C] sweet,  <\/span><\/span>but the [D] fruit of the poor lemon is im- [D7] -possible to [G] eat.\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span> \r\n::  <\/span>One [G] day beneath the lemon tree my love and [D] I did [G] lie.  \r\n<\/span><\/span>A [G] girl so sweet that [C] when she smiled the [D] stars rose in the [G] sky.<\/span><\/span>    \r\nWe [C] passed that summer [F] lost in love [C] beneath the [G] lemon [C] tree.   <\/span><\/span>The [C] music of her [F] laughter hid my [C] father's [G] words from [C] me. - - - [D7]\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n{ CHORUS } [D7] <\/span>Lemon [G] tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is [C] sweet, b<\/span>ut the [D] fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to [G] eat. <\/span>[G] Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is [C] sweet, <\/span>but the [D] fruit of the poor lemon is im- [D7] -possible to [G] eat.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/span>PAUSE TO SCROLL DOWN PAGE<\/span><\/span>\r\n \r\n::  <\/span>One [G] day she left without a word, she took [D] away the [G] sun.  <\/span><\/span>And [G] in the dark she [C] left behind, I knew what [D] she had [G] done.  <\/span><\/span>\r\nShe [C] left me for a- [F] -nother, it's a [C] common [G] tale but [C] true.  <\/span><\/span>A [C] sadder man but [F] wiser now, I [C] sing these [G] words to [C] you. - - - [D7]\r\n<\/span><\/span>\r\n{ CHORUS } [D7] <\/span>Lemon [G] tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is [C] sweet, but the [D] fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to [G] eat. [G] Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is [C] sweet, but the [D] fruit of the poor lemon is im- [D7] -possible to [G] eat.<\/span>\r\n<\/span> \r\n<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00a0 :: When [G] I was just a lad of ten, my father [D] said to [G] me, “Come [G] here and take a [C] lesson from the [D] lovely lemon [G] tree. Don’t [C] put your faith in [F] love my boy,” my [C] father [G] said to [C] … CLICK TO VIEW SONGLemon Tree<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,133,126,265,116,117,68,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-love-songs","category-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30188,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12145\/revisions\/30188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}