Needle Of Death chords

Bert Jansch

Simplify chords 

  			

Standard Tuning 
 
 


This is another of those tunes where you play a constant alternating bass-note thing with your thumb 
whilst picking out the melody with your pinkies. 


Intro: 

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Verse: 

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Chorus: