When I was first teaching myself to play the autoharp, I got to feeling pretty cocky about my ability to play by ear. I brought it along to a church youth conference I was chaparoning and asked a teenage boy to pick a tune so I could demonstrate. I was expecting him to choose a rock song, I guess, but hearing a rock song butchered on the autoharp was not his priority: much better to make himself look smart and take me down a notch! He asked for "Greensleeves," and I was stumped... it took me about 5 years to work out this arrangement, and I don't ask teenagers for requests anymore.
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Note that this tune is in 3/4 time, with the first note beginning on the third beat of the measure.
chords: Dm Dm - C F - (G) F C - - Am - (G) Am melody: D4 F G A5 B A G4 E C D E Bb - - Gm - (C) Gm A7 - - A7 - Dm F D D C D E C# A D Dm - C F - (G) F C - - Am - (G) Am F G A5 B A G4 E C D E Bb - (C) Gm A7 - (G) A7 Dm - - Dm - - F E D C# B C# D D F - - F - (G) F C - - Am - (G) Am C5 C B A G4 E C D E Bb - - Gm - (C) Gm A7 - - A7 - - F D D C D E C# A F - - F - (G) F C - - Am - (G) Am C5 C B A G4 E C D E Bb - (C) Gm A7 - (G) A7 Dm - - Dm - F E D C# B C# D D
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