《Mr. Tanner(Lp Version)》歌词

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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