Tabs
Tenting Tonight (Traditional Civil War tune, not copyrighted)
Transcribed by: Erik Olsson ([email protected])
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
