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From: Erik Olsson 
Subject: m/misc_traditional/tenting_tonight.tab
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 21:28:43 -0700

Tenting Tonight (Traditional Civil War tune, not copyrighted)

Transcribed by: Erik Olsson (eolsson@ics.uci.edu)
Taken from the vocal lines. Top notes in chorus are
the soprano line, bottom is alto.


t = 100
        
   Verse:                                                
e||---------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
B||---------------|--2----2-----------------|-------------------------|
G||---------------|----------4--2----0------|-------------------------|
D||------------2--|----------------------3--|--3----2----2------------|
A||---------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
E||---------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
            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