《Mr. Tanner(Lp Version)》歌词

歌曲： Mr. Tanner(Lp Version)

所属专辑：Short Stories

歌手： HARRY CHAPIN

时长： 05:13

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Mr. Tanner (Lp Version) - Harry Chapin[00:00:00]

Mr tanner was a cleaner from a town in the Midwest[00:00:10]

And of all the cleaning shops around he'd made his the best[00:00:15]

But he also was a baritone who sang while hanging clothes[00:00:20]

He practiced scales while pressing tails and sang at local shows[00:00:25]

His friends and neighbors praised the voice[00:00:32]

That poured out from his throat[00:00:34]

They said that he should use his gift instead of cleaning coats[00:00:37]

But music was his life it was not his livelihood[00:00:44]

And it made him feel so happy and it made him feel so good[00:00:52]

And he sang from his heart and he sang from his soul[00:00:57]

He did not know how well he sang it just made him whole[00:01:02]

His friends kept working on him to try music out full time[00:01:10]

A big debut and rave reviews a great career to climb[00:01:22]

Finally they got to him he would take the fling[00:01:27]

A concert agent in New York agreed to have him sing[00:01:32]

And there were plane tickets phone calls money spent to rent the hall[00:01:38]

It took most of his savings but he gladly used them all[00:01:43]

But music was his life it was not his livelihood[00:01:51]

And it made him feel so happy and it made him feel so good[00:01:58]

And he sang from his heart and he sang from his soul[00:02:04]

He did not know how well he sang it just made him whole[00:02:08]

The evening came he took the stage his face set in a smile[00:02:15]

And in the half filled hall the critics sat watching on the aisle[00:02:27]

But the concert was a blur to him spatters of applause[00:02:33]

He did not know how well he sang he only heard the flaws[00:02:38]

But the critics were concise it only took four lines[00:02:43]

But no one could accuse them of being over kind[00:02:50]

Mr Martin Tanner baritone of Dayton Ohio[00:02:57]

Made his town hall debut last night[00:03:01]

Be came well prepared but unfortunately his presentation[00:03:04]

Was not up to contemporary professional standards[00:03:08]

His voice lacks the range of tonal color[00:03:11]

Necessary to make it consistently interesting[00:03:14]

Full time consideration of another endeavor might be in order[00:03:18]

He came home to Dayton and was questioned by his friends[00:03:36]

Then he smiled and just said nothing and he never sang again[00:03:41]

Excepting very late at night when the shop was dark and closed[00:03:51]

He sang softly to himself as he sorted through the clothes[00:03:58]

Music was his life it was not his livelihood[00:04:11]

And it made him feel so happy it made him feel so good[00:04:24]

And he sang from his heart and he sang from his soul[00:04:35]

And he did not know how well he sang it just made him whole[00:04:44]