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Portrait of Brahms, composer of the Wiegenlied; public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Brahms's lullaby, Op. 49 No. 4 (1868), one of the most widely recognized melodies in Western music.

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Numbers are frets and 0 is an open string. Standard tuning (E A D G B E). Each group of six lines is one system; read left to right, one column at a time. This is a multi-section arrangement of the public-domain melody.

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[Opening]
e|0---0---3---0---|0---3---0---3---|8---7---5---5---|3---5---7---8---|
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

[Second phrase]
e|8---7---5---3---|5---3---1---0---|0---3---5---3---|1---0-----------|
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

[Third phrase]
e|0---0---3---0---|0---3---0---3---|5---3---1---0---|0---------------|
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

[Closing]
e|0---3---5---3---|5---3---1---0---|3---1---0-------|0---------------|
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|