Tonalité : G major
Verse 1
G
Em
G
Mister
Tanner was a cleaner
from a town in the Midwest.
And of all the cleaning shops around
D
he'd made his the best.
C
Bb
Am
But he also was a baritone who sang
G
while hanging clothes.
F
He practiced scales while pressing
Em
D
tails and sang at local shows.
Em
His friends and neighbors praised the voice
D
that poured out from his throat.
Em
They said that he should use his gift
D
instead of cleaning coats.
Verse 2
G
Bm
But music was his life,
Am
it was not his livelihood,
Em
And it made him feel so happy and
G
D
it made him feel so good.
G
C
And he sang from his heart
G
D
and he sang from his soul.
G
C
G
He did not know how well he sang; It
C
G
just made him whole.
Em
G
Em
Verse 3
G
His friends kept working on him
Em
G
to try mu sic out full time.
A big debut and rave reviews,
Em
D
a great career to climb.
C
Bb
Finally they got to him,
Am
G
he would take the fling.
F
A concert agent in New York
Em
D
agreed to have him sing.
Em
And there were plane tickets, phone calls,
D
money spent to rent the hall.
Em
It took most of his savings but
D
he gladly used them all.
Verse 4
G
Bm
But music was his life,
Am
it was not his livelihood,
Em
And it made him feel so happy and
G
D
it made him feel so good.
G
C
And he sang from his heart
G
D
and he sang from his soul.
G
C
G
He did not know how well he sang; It
C
G
just made him whole.
Verse 5
G
The evening came, he took the stage,
his face set in a smile.
And in the half filled hall the critics
D
sat watching on the aisle.
C
Bb
But the concert was a blur to him,
Am
G
spatters of applause.
He did not know how well he sang,
Em
D
he only heard the flaws.
Em
But the critics were concise,
D
it only took four lines.
Em
But no one could accuse
D
them of be ing over kind.
Verse 6
G
Mr. Martin Tanner, Baritone,
F
of Dayton, Ohio made his
Eb
Town Hall debut last night. He came well prepared,
D
but unfortunately
G
C
His presentation was not up to con
Cm
temporary professional standards.
Bb
C
Ab
His voice lacks the range of tonal
color necessary to make it
G
Consistently interesting.
Verse 7
C
Bb
Full time consideration of another endeavor
G
Em
G
Em
G
might be in order.
He came home to Dayton and was
Em
G
questioned by his friends.
Then he smiled and just said nothing
Em
G
D
and he never sang again,
C
Cm
Eb
Excepting very late at night when the
Am
G
shop was dark and closed.
He sang softly to himself as he sorted
Interlude 1
through the clothes.
D
G
Bm
Verse 8
Bm
Music was his life,
Am
it was not his livelihood,
Em
And it made him feel so happy and
G
D
it made him feel so good.
G
C
And he sang from his heart and
G
D
he sang from his soul.
G
C
Bb
He did not know how well he sang; It
F
G
Em
G
just made him
whole.
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