Lavender’s Blue guitar tab
The 17th-century English song in 3/4, eight bars on four strings with one run of eighth notes.
- Level
- Beginner melody
- Key
- G major
- Time
- 3/4
- Tempo
- ♩ = 108
- Tuning
- Standard, EADGBE
Lavender’s Blue
Traditional English · arranged by guitarnotation
How to play it
- Bars 1 and 5 begin with a leap from the open third string up to D, the third fret of the second string, played twice.
- The run in bars 2 and 6, D C B A G, is four quick eighth notes after a quarter: third fret, first fret, open second string, then the second fret and open third string.
- The E in bars 3 and 4 is the open first string, held for a whole bar in bar 4.
About the song
An English song printed as a broadside around 1675, and a nursery song ever since.
The melody is in the public domain. This arrangement is ours, and you're welcome to download, print and play it for your own practice.
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