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Does any of you guys play John Denvers songs on a three string Mal(UK)

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Permalink Reply by jamie bark on February 13, 2013 at 3:29pm

I don't currently, but I bet if you found any guitar site that has chords to his songs, I bet you could start to figure them out if you know the chord positions.

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