Moving audio tracks to on 2nd layer synch with video clip on first layer

Hi all; greetings to Tom, Ian B and Piero - and many thanks to all for your help in the past. My question is I want to overlay a video clip as a second layer in FCE and sync up the sound with the first. The first layer is a video of a song, the second layer I want to add has different video - 3 short clips as 3 short .MOV files - but same sound track. So I need to EXACTLY match the sound of the second to the lips of the singer in the first. Can any one help me to figure out how can I slip the audio track left and right easily and precisely. I have done it in iMovie by dragging the sound bar but need to use FCE this time. Many thanks to all as always.

Unlink the audio and video tracks.
Select the track/s you want to move and hit the + or - key.
A box appears under the Timeline Ruler, type in a value to move the track/s forward or back then hit Enter/Return to activate the change.
eg. +1 is one frame forward.
Note: The clips won't move if there are other clips in the way preventing movement.
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