Greensleeves for Guitar by Cutting (PDF)

Greensleeves - Renaissance Setting - TAB Edition
By Francis Cutting (c.1550–1596), originally for lute but arranged here as classical guitar sheet music in modern notation and tab. The level is approximately intermediate (Grade 5). This is a PDF download. View a sample of the tab by clicking the image icon lower left.

Note: This is a Renaissance setting of the piece. If you are looking for an easy modern/normal setting of Greensleeves see my Easy Guitar Collection.

Free Notation Edition (Fingered & Clean)

• Greensleeves by Francis Cutting (Free PDF)

Here’s a free sheet music edition of Elizabethan lutenist & composer Francis Cutting's (c.1550–1596) setting of Greensleeves. This piece is originally for lute [Source: GB-London, British Library, Add.31392]. See the original lute tablature here. I've fingered the music for for regular guitar tuning but also see the clean score at the end for alternate fingerings or to use relative lute tuning. It's a bit tricky but once you can navigate the chord shapes smoothly it's more on the early intermediate side.