What Will Become of England

The Death of Robin Hood is a dark, revisionist retelling of the 17th-century ballad “Robin Hood’s Death”, directed by Michael Sarnoski (Pig, A Quiet Place: Day One). Hugh Jackman plays a grizzled, antiheroic Robin Hood against foggy medieval landscapes shot on location in Northern Ireland.

Jim Ghedi’s score blends folk songs full of longing with low, sorrowful strings, and “What Will Become of England” is one of its most haunting moments. This soundtrack is excellent and immensely listenable — even separate from the film. Although darker, you’ll be reminded of the sparse music from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms — or even Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel — a highly underrated film and one of my favorites.

“What Will Become of England” is a really great guitar motif from Jim Ghedi. He matches it with a vocal line throughout the piece. Since I’m an instrumentalist, I abbreviated the song down to its essentials for a solo fingerstyle arrangement.

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How to play What Will Become of England | fingerstyle guitar

The guitar tab for this piece is beautifully written across 2 pages. While there’s no difficult chord shapes I recommend this piece for intermediate guitar players and up. Enjoy! The guitar TAB is available below:

My song structure looks like this in accordance with the guitar tab:

Verse 2x, Repeat Verse End

Outro 2x, End

[guitar tab] **The Death of Robin Hood: What Will Become of England | fingerstyle guitar

This piece is played one whole step down. Your tuning will look like this from low to high: D G C F A D.