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249 lines
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id:
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aliases: []
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title: The Cruel Mother (Traditional)
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tags:
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- authorship/other
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- destiny/permanent
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- exclude-from-word-count
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- status/incomplete
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- topic/banjo
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- type/media/music
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---
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# The Cruel Mother (Traditional)
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## Lyrics
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```verse
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There lived a lady, lived in york
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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She fell in love with her own father's clark
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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She's leaned her back against a tree
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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Said "Honorable Mary, pity me"
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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She's leaned herself against an oak
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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She thought three times that her back would be broke
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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She's leaned her back against a thorn
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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And there she's had two bonnie babes born
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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She's taken her ribbon, long and neat
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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And tied those babes their hands and feet
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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She's taken up her small pen knife
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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With which to take their two wee lives
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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She's taken the pen knife, long and sharp
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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And pressed it into their tender hearts
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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She's wiped her pen knife on the grass
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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(The more)? she wiped the blood ran fast
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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She's dug a grave both wide and deep
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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In which to put those babes to sleep
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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She went to walk in the woods one night
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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She saw two babes dressed all in white
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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Oh bonnie babes if you were mine
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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I'd dress you up in silk so fine
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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Oh mother mother we were thine
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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You did not dress us in silk so fine
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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Oh bonnie babes what will become of me
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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You'll be seven years a bird in a tree
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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Seven years a bird in a tree
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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Then seven years more a fish in the sea
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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Then seven years more a tongue in a bell
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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Then seven years more a-burning in hell
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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```
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## Tablature
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```lily
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\version "2.25.22"
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\paper { indent=0 }
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\header {
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title="The Cruel Mother"
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instrument="5-String Banjo"
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composer="Scarlett Sladek" % probably. I haven't found a similar version.
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arranger="Publius"
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}
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tagline = ##f
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mel = {
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\time 4/4
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\tempo 4 = 120
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\sectionLabel "Verse 1"
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fis4\4
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<gis\4 b\3>8
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b'8\5
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gis4\4
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gis8\4
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b'8\5
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fis4\4
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fis8\4
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b'8\5
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fis4\4
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gis8\4
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b'8\5
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| \break
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\section
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\sectionLabel "Refrain 1"
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fis4\4
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fis8\4
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b'8\5
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fis4\4
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gis8\4
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b'8\5
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cis'4\3
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cis'8\3
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b'8\5
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cis'4\3
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cis'8\3
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b'8\5
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| \break
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\section
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\sectionLabel "Verse 2"
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fis4\4
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gis8\4
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b'8\5
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gis4\4
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gis8\4
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b'8\5
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fis4\4
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fis8\4
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b'8\5
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fis8\4( gis8\4)
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fis8\4
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b'8\5
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| \break
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\section
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\sectionLabel "Refrain 2"
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fis4\4
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cis'8\3
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b'8\5
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b4\3
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cis'8\3
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b'8\5
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cis'4\3
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cis'8\3
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b'8\5
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cis'4\3
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cis'8\3
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b'8\5
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| \break
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fis4\4
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cis'8\3
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b'8\5
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b4\3
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cis'8\3
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b'8\5
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cis'4\3
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cis'8\3
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b'8\5
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cis'4\3
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cis'8\3
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b'8\5
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| \break
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dis'4\2
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fis'8\1
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b'8\5
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gis'8\1( fis'8\1)
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fis'8\1
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b'8\5
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dis'4\2
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cis'8\3
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\deadNote b'8\5
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b4\3
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b8\3
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b'8\5
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\section
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}
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lyr = \lyricmode {
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There4 lived ___ a8 la-8 dy lived4 in4 York4
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All4 8 a-8 lone4 and8 a-8 lone-4 8 ly oh!2
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She4 fell2 in8 love8 with8 her8 own4 father's4 clark4
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Down4 by8 the8 green-4 wood4 si-4 8 dey oh!2
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Down4 by8 the8 green-4 wood4 si-2 dey2
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}
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\score {
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<<
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\new TabStaff = "one"
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{
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\set TabStaff.tablatureFormat = #fret-number-tablature-format-banjo
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\set TabStaff.stringTunings = \stringTuning <g' d g b d'> % tuning unknown.
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% \set TabStaff.stringTunings = #banjo-open-g-tuning % equivalent to \stringTuning <g' d g b d'>
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% capo'd to fret 4, unsure how to represent this in lilypond
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% \set Score.stringOneTopmost = ##f
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\override Beam.concaveness = #10000
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\clef moderntab
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\numericTimeSignature
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\stemDown
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\tabFullNotation
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\mel
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}
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\new Lyrics \lyr
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>>
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\layout { }
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\midi { }
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}
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```
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