Guns N' Roses – Sweet Child o' Mine

from the album "Appetite for Destruction" (1987)

written by Steven Adler, Duff McKagan,
Axl Rose, Slash & Izzy Stradlin
arranged by Vika Yermolyeva
(www.vkgoeswild.com)
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