Song Name: | The Workers Song | By: | Ed Pickford |
Posted By: | behemoth365 | Difficulty: | Any |
Key: | Any | Genre: | Folk |
Harp Type: | Diatonic | ||
Created: | 2018-06-17 09:20:08 | Modified: | 2018-06-20 09:09:10 |
Song: | The Workers Song by Ed Pickford; covered by Dick
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