Tune Add: Lemon Tree (Will Holt)

Subject: Tune Add: LEMON TREE
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 01 Dec 98 - 08:55 PM

OK, so there may be mixed opinion as to whether this constitutes a classic folk song, but I'd swear it has crossed the lips of a huge number of budding singer/guitarists in the last thirty odd years - and the tune is missing from the DT.

Anyone like to own up to having sung it?

Regards
John

MIDI file: lemon_nu.mid

Timebase: 120

TimeSig: 4/4 24 8
Key: G
Tempo: 160 (375000 microsec/crotchet)
Name: Lemon Tree
Start
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ABC format:

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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Lemon Tree (Will Holt)
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Dec 24 - 01:49 PM

Well, no, in answer to the opening post, I have not sung the song.
But I grew up with the Peter Paul & Mary recording,
on their very first album together.

I don't know if I'm making this up, but it seems to me that
I have heard a cover version with Latin rhythms,
something like Trini Lopez of happy memory.

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Lemon Tree (Will Holt)
From: GerryM
Date: 19 Dec 24 - 06:48 PM

Someone sang it at the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 27/28 March 2023. It was probably me, but I'm away from my notebooks, so I can't check.

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Lemon Tree (Will Holt)
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 25 Dec 24 - 07:21 PM

Copied from Wikipedia:
“Lemon Tree" is a folk song written by Will Holt in the late 1950s. Inspired by a Brazilian song, Meu limão meu limoeiro, originally written in 1930.

Peter Paul and Mary recorded it in 1962, but Trini Lopez had a much bigger chart success with it in 1965, and yes, I agree with Keberoxu, Trini’s version did have a Latin rhythm to it.