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Wildwood Flower

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The Carter Family, 1927, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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The Carter Family's 1928 recording of an older parlor song became a cornerstone of country guitar repertoire.

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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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[Verse phrase]
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------0----------|
B|-----------1---------------------------------1------------------------1-3-1-------|
G|-----0-0h2-----------------------------0-0h2-------------------------0-----0-0h2--|
D|-2-3---------2-3-2-0-2-0-----0h2---2-3---------2-3-2-0-2-0-----0h2----------------|
A|-------------------------2-3-----3-------------------------2-3-----3--------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

[Verse repeated]
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------0----------|
B|-----------1---------------------------------1------------------------1-3-1-------|
G|-----0-0h2-----------------------------0-0h2-------------------------0-----0-0h2--|
D|-2-3---------2-3-2-0-2-0-----0h2---2-3---------2-3-2-0-2-0-----0h2----------------|
A|-------------------------2-3-----3-------------------------2-3-----3--------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

[Turnaround]
e|---------------------------------0------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------1---------------------1-3-1-------1-------------------------------0---|
G|-----0-0h2-----------------0-0h2-------0-0h2---0-0h2-------------------0-0h2---0-|
D|-2-3---------2-3-2-0-2-0-------------------------------------0h2---2-3------------|
A|-------------------------2-3-----3-----------------------2-3-----3----------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

[Final phrase]
e|---------------------------------0------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------1---------------------1-3-1---------------------------------------0---|
G|-----0-0h2-----------------0-0h2-------0-0h2-------------------0-0h2---0-0h2---0-|
D|-2-3---------2-3-2-0-2-0---------------------------------0h2---2-3--------------|
A|-------------------------2-3-----3-----------------2-3-----3------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|