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The Wearing of the Green guitar fingerstyle
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The Wearing of the Green is an Irish street ballad. It is to an old Irish air, and many versions of the lyric exist, the best-known being by Dion Boucicault (26 December 1820 18 September 1890).
For Guitar fingesrtyle (classical guitar or acoustic guitar) or Guitar fingerstyle and voice.
With melody line and lyrics.
With standard notation and tablature. With downloadable mp3 just for audio help.
Easy to early intermediate.
Pages: Three (3) pages.
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