《Mr. Tanner》歌词

歌曲： Mr. Tanner

所属专辑：The Elektra Collection (1971-1978)

歌手： HARRY CHAPIN

时长： 05:13

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Mr Tanner - Harry Chapin[00:00:00]

Mister 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]

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[00:00:31]

Praised the voice that poured out from his throat [00:00:33]

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

But music was his life [00:00:47]

It was not his livelihood [00:00:49]

And it made him feel so happy and it made him feel so good [00:00:51]

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 [00:01:16]

A big debut and rave reviews a great career to climb [00:01:21]

Finally they got to him he would take the fling [00:01:26]

A concert agent in New York agreed to have him sing [00:01:31]

There were plane tickets phone calls [00:01:37]

Money spent to rent the hall [00:01:41]

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 [00:01:53]

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

He sang from his heart and he sang from his soul [00:02:03]

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 [00:02:22]

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

The concert was a blur to him spatters of applause [00:02:32]

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]

And no one could accuse them of being over kind [00:02:49]

Mr Martin Tanner Baritone of Dayton [00:02:57]

Ohio made his Town Hall debut last night [00:02:59]

He came well prepared but unfortunately[00:03:03]

His presentation was not up to contemporary professional standards [00:03:06]

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

Make it consistently interesting [00:03:14]

Full time consideration of another endeavor might be in order [00:03:17]

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

But he smiled and just said nothing and he never sang again [00:03:40]

Excepting very late at night when the shop was dark and closed [00:03:50]

He sang softly to himself as he sorted through the clothes [00:04:00]

But music was his life it was not his livelihood [00:04:16]

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

And he sang from his heart and he sang from his soul [00:04:34]

He did not know how well he sang; It just made him whole[00:04:44]