Tenting Tonight tab by Traditional

Tabs with lyrics

Tenting Tonight (Traditional Civil War tune, not copyrighted)

Taken from the vocal lines. Top notes in chorus are
the soprano line, bottom is alto.


t = 100

   Verse:
e||---------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
BB||---------------|--2----2-----------------|-------------------------|
G+G||---------------|----------4--2----0------|-------------------------|
D MajorD||------------2--|----------------------3--|--3----2----2------------|
A augmentedA||---------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
E MajorE||---------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
            We're   tenting to-night on the   old camp ground

|-----------------------|------------------|--------------------------|
|-----------------------|------------------|--2----2------------------|
|-----------------------|------------------|------------2-------------|
|--2--2----0--0---------|-------------2----|-------------------3------|
|--------------------3--|--3---------------|--------------------------|
|-----------------------|------------------|--------------------------|
 Give us  a  song   to    cheer      Our     wea - ry  hearts  a


|----------------------|----------------------|-----------------------|
|----------------------|----------------------|-----------------------|
|----------------------|--0------0------------|--2--------------------|
|--3------2--2------2--|------------3----2----|-----------------------|
|----------------------|----------------------|-----------------------|
|----------------------|----------------------|-----------------------|
 song    of home   And   friends we love so     dear


 Chorus:

|-------------------------|-------------------|-----------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------|-----------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------|--------------2-----2--|
|--2--2--2--2---2---0--2--|--3--3----3--3-----|--2--2--3--3--2-----2--|
|--3--3--3--3---3---0--3--|--5--5----5--5-----|--3--3--5--5-----------|
|-------------------------|-------------------|-----------------------|
  Ma-ny are the hearts      wea-ry  to-night   wishing      war   to
                  that are                            for the

|------------------|-------------------------|------------------------|
|--0---------------|--1--1--1---0------------|------------------------|
|------------------|--2--2--2---0--2---------|-----------2-----2------|
|------------------|---------------3---3--3--|--3-----3--3-----3------|
|--2---------------|-------------------5--5--|--5-----5---------------|
|-(0)--------------|-------------------------|------------------------|
 cease               Ma-ny are the hearts      for   the right to
                                     loo-king

|----------------------|-------------------|--------------------------|
|--2------2--2------0--|-------------------|--------------------------|
|----------------------|--2----------------|--------------------------|
|--2------2--2------0--|-------------------|--2--2----2--2------------|
|----------------------|--3----------------|--3--3----3--3------------|
|----------------------|-------------------|--------------------------|
  see   the dawn   of    peace              Ten-ting to-night


|----------------------|------------------------|--------------------||
|----------------------|------------------------|--------------------||
|----------------------|-------------------0----|--2-----------------||
|--0--0----0--0--------|--0--0--0--0--0----0----|--------------------||
|--8--8----8--8--------|--7--7--7--7--8---------|--3-----------------||
|----------------------|------------------------|--------------------||
 Ten-ting to-night      Tenting on the old camp   ground