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Lyrics for Mr. Tanner by Harry Chapin:
| | | Artist: | Harry Chapin |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Mr. Tanner | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 90 | | | | Lyrics: | Mister Tanner was a cleaner from a town in the Midwest.
And of all the cleaning shops around
he'd made his the best.
But he also was a baritone who sang while hanging clothes.
He
practiced scales while pressing tails and sang at local shows.
His friends and neighbors praised
the voice that poured out from his throat.
They said that he should use his gift instead of
cleaning coats.
But music was his life, it was not his livelihood,
and it made him feel
so happy and it made him feel so good.
And he sang from his heart and he sang from his
soul.
He did not know how well he sang; It just made him whole.
His friends kept
working on him to try music out full time.
A big debut and rave reviews, a great career to
climb.
Finally they got to him, he would take the fling.
A concert agent in New York agreed
to have him sing.
And there were plane tickets, phone calls, money spent to rent the
hall.
It took most of his savings but he gladly used them all.
But music was his life,
it was not his livelihood,
and it made him feel so happy and it made him feel so good.
And
he sang from his heart and he sang from his soul.
He did not know how well he sang; It just made
him whole.
The evening came, he took the stage, his face set in a smile.
And in the
half filled hall the critics sat watching on the aisle.
But the concert was a blur to him,
spatters of applause.
He did not know how well he sang, he only heard the flaws.
But the
critics were concise, it only took four lines.
But no one could accuse them of being over
kind.
(spoken) Mr. Martin Tanner, Baritone, of Dayton, Ohio made his
Town Hall debut
last night. He came well prepared, but unfortunately
his presentation was not up to contemporary
professional standards.
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