Key: F
Introduction: F Bb
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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 lemon is impossible to eat.
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Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
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But the fruit of the lemon is impossible to eat.
One day beneath the lemon tree, my love and I did lie,