Mr Tanner

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[Verse]
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Mr Tanner was a cleaner from a 
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town in the Mid west
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And of all the cleaning shops 
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around he'd made his the best
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But he also was a baritone who 
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sang while hanging clothes
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He practiced scales while pressing
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 tails and sang at local shows
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His friends and neighbors praised 
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the voice that poured out from his 
throat
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They said that he should use his 
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gift in-stead of cleaning coats


[Chorus]
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  But music was his life, it was not
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 his livelihood
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And it made him feel so happy and 
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it made him feel so good
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And he sang from his heart and he 
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sang from his soul
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He did not know how well he sang, 
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it just made him whole


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[Verse]
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His friends kept working on him to
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 try music out full time
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A big debut and rave reviews a 
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great career to climb
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Finally they got to him he would
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 take the fling
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A concert agent in New York 
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agreed to have him sing
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And there were plane tickets, phone
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 calls, money spent to rent the hall
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It took most of his savings but he 
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gladly used them all


[Chorus]
G     Bm                         
  But music was his life, it was not
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 his livelihood
       Em                          
And it made him feel so happy and 
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it made him feel so good
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And he sang from his heart and he 
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sang from his soul
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He did not know how well he sang, 
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it just made him whole


[Verse]
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The evening came he took the stage
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 his face set in a smile
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And in the half filled hall the 
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critics sat watching on the aisle
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But the concert was a blur to him 
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spatters of applause
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He did not know how well he sang, 
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he only heard the flaws
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But the critics were concise, it 
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only took four lines
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But no one could accuse them of 
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being overkind


[Spoken]
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Mr Martin Tanner, Baritone, of 
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Dayton Ohio
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Made his Town Hall debut last 
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night.  He came well prepared
But unfortunately his presentation 
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was not up to contemporary
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Professional standards.  His voice 
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lacks the range of tonal color
Necessary to make it consistently 
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interesting
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Full time consideration of an 
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other endeavor might be in order
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He came back home to Dayton and 
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was questioned by his friends
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Then he smiled and just said 
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nothing and he never sang again
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Excepting very late at night when
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 the shop was dark and closed
He sang softly to himself as he 
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sorted through the clothes


[Chorus]
G Bm                             
  Music was his life, it was not his
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 livelihood
       Em                         
And it made him feel so happy, it 
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made him feel so good
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And he sang from his heart and he 
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sang from his soul
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And he did not know how well he sang
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It just made him whole