Lion Sleeps Tonight tab by The Tokens

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               Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens
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Tabbed by: janfer
E-mail: [email protected]

Tuning: Standard

This is my first tab, but I hope you guys like it.

In most versions if not in all, they play the song in the key of F. I tabbed two equivalent versions -
same notes, different places on the guitar. I for myself like to play this song only one string.

The chords for this song are FF - Bb majorBb - FF - C majorC and work perfectly well with this tab.

Version 1:

e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|-6--8-10--8--10-11--10-8--6--8-10--8--6--10-8~~----13--10-8--10--13-11--10-|
G+G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

               play this part two times
              /              \
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-8-6--8--10--8--6--10-8~~---1--13--11--13--11--10--1--1--1-1---------------------|
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             /
            the final part with the ones is a bit tricky,
            but if done rightly, it sounds alright
the best that I could find for the "wimoweh" part was:
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|--1-6--6-10--repeat as often as you need it--------------------------------|
G+G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

But honestly the "wimoweh" part sounds better in the second version:

As mentioned above the second version has the same notes. The difference is that
you play them now on more than one string.


e|------5-----5-6--5---------5--------5-------8--5----5--8-6--5---------5----|
BB|-6--8----8---------8--6--8----8--6----8~~--------8------------8-6--8-------|
G+G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

          play this part two times
         /             \
--------5----------8---6--8--6--5--------------------------------------------|
--8--6----8~~----------------------------------------------------------------|
----------------5-----------------5--5--5-5----------------------------------|
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e|------5----------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|---6-6---repeat as often as you need it--------------------------------------|
G+G|--5--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|


~ means as always vibrato

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