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Silent Night

Ethan C

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                                 SiLeNt NiGhT
                              lead guitar Version

Transcribed by Ethan Chung
cqyyong@hotmail.com


Ho! Ho! Ho!
This song is in 3/4 time i.e. play 3 beats to a bar
I played this song using a classical nylon guitar and it sounds real nice and
mellow with this song! Adding lots of vibrato (ala B.B King) to the notes helps too!
Merry X'Mas!!


  G         G         G         G         D7        D7        G
E|---------|---------|---------|---------|-4/5-5---|---------|---------|
B|-----5---|---------|-----5---|---------|---------|-7-------|-8-8-----|
G|-5/7---7-|--4------|-5/7---7-|--4------|---------|---------|-----7---|
D|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|
A|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|
E|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|

  Silent Night, Holy Night                All is calm, all is bright


  C         C           G         G
E|---------|-----------|---------|---------|
B|---------|-8-7-7\5-5-|---5-----|---------|
G|-7/9-9---|-----------|-7---7---|-4-------|
D|---------|-----------|---------|---------|
A|---------|-----------|---------|---------|
E|---------|-----------|---------|---------|  x2

  Round yon virgin mother and child
  Holy infant so tender and mild


  D7       D7        G        G
E|-5--5---|-8--5\2--|-3------|-5/7--|
B|--------|---------|--------|------|
G|--------|---------|--------|------|
D|--------|---------|--------|------|
A|--------|---------|--------|------|
E|--------|---------|--------|------|

  Sleep in heavenly peace...


  G           D7         G
E|-----------|----------|--------|
B|--8--------|----------|--------|
G|-----7--4--|--7--5----|--------|
D|-----------|--------7-|--5-----|
A|-----------|----------|--------|
E|-----------|----------|--------|

  Sleep in heavenly peace.

Happy Holidays and Merry X'Mas!!!
Ethan

PS: Please send all corrections, errors etc to cqyyong@hotmail.com