Tenting Tonight tab by Traditional

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