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I've been working on learning toki pona! But much more than that I've been immediately jumping into trying to translate songs into it without quite having the full knowledge that would support that XD. Here's an attempt at the first verse of "O Come, All Ye Faithful" that I threw together Christmas night.

Doing a ton of rapid chord changes while singing in toki pona was a little beyond my ability, so I've included both full and simplified versions here!

Simplified Version
    D       A
jan nasin o kama
   D       G D A
li pona li kalama
  Bm A       D A  D A  E   A
o kama, o ta - wa e ma Petelen
  D       G D
o lukin e o-na
   Bm   G    A
ni li lawa e sewi
  D
a o lukin e ona!
            A
a o olin e ona!
  G     Em  A   G   D
o lukin li olin e ona
A   D
jan Jesu


Full Version
    D       A
jan nasin o kama
   D A  D  G D A
li pona li kalama
  Bm A  E A  D A  D A  E   A
o kama, o ta - wa e ma Petelen
  D A7  D G D
o lukin e o-na
   A  D    E7 A
ni li lawa e  sewi
  D A D   G D
a o lukin e ona!
    A D   A7 D A
a o o-lin e  o-na!
  G D   G6 E A   D Em D
o lukin li o-lin e on-a
A   D
jan Jesu



A friend told me about the "pre" HTML tag and that made things a lot easier than just trying to change the font! Thanks [personal profile] unbitwise!
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