[TominNJ]

I haven't read all the replies so this may have been said already.

You're not obligated to play all the notes in the arrangements. Hal Leonard won't show up at your door and confiscate your songbook if you only finger some of the notes. Hit the melody note and whatever else is in easy reach.

Remember that those notes can be played in other places on the fretboard. I've seen arrangements with impossible finger stretches that can be played much more simply by playing one of the notes on the adjacent string. Exact same notes but much easier fingering. It makes me wonder what the arranger was thinking or if transcribing software created the error.