G G/F Em G/D  2x


[Verse]
   G            G/F            Em              G/D
Mr Tanner was a cleaner from a town in the Mid west
       G                G/F          Em               D
And of all the cleaning shops around he'd made his the best
       C          Bb           Am7                G
But he also was a baritone who sang while hanging clothes
   G                      G/F                Em            D
He practiced scales while pressing tails and sang at local shows
    Em                                           D
His friends and neighbors praised the voice that poured out from his throat
     Em                                  D
They said that he should use his gift in-stead of cleaning coats


[Chorus]
G     Bm                         Am7
  But music was his life, it was not his livelihood
       Em                            G/D              D/C
And it made him feel so happy and it made him feel so good
       G/B                 C      G/D           D
And he sang from his heart and he sang from his soul
   G                C             G       C        G
He did not know how well he sang, it just made him whole


[Break]
G  G/F  Em  G/D 2x


[Verse]
    G                    G/F           Em             G/D
His friends kept working on him to try music out full time
  G             G/F            Em              D
A big debut and rave reviews a great career to climb
C            Bb         Am7                  G
Finally they got to him he would take the fling
  G             G/F         Em                 D
A concert agent in New York agreed to have him sing
               Em                          D
And there were plane tickets, phone calls, money spent to rent the hall
   Em                              D
It took most of his savings but he gladly used them all


[Chorus]
G     Bm                         Am7
  But music was his life, it was not his livelihood
       Em                            G/D              D/C
And it made him feel so happy and it made him feel so good
       G/B                 C      G/D           D
And he sang from his heart and he sang from his soul
   G                C             G       C        G
He did not know how well he sang, it just made him whole


[Verse]
    G               G/F                Em            G/D
The evening came he took the stage his face set in a smile
           G                    G/F         Em              D
And in the half filled hall the critics sat watching on the aisle
        C             Bb          Am7                  G
But the concert was a blur to him spatters of applause
                    G/F              Em             D
He did not know how well he sang, he only heard the flaws
        Em                       D
But the critics were concise, it only took four lines
    Em                          D
But no one could accuse them of being overkind


[Spoken]
G                              G/F
Mr Martin Tanner, Baritone, of Dayton Ohio
                   Eb                              G/D
Made his Town Hall debut last night.  He came well prepared
                                   C
But unfortunately his presentation was not up to contemporary
             Bb                              Abmaj7
Professional standards.  His voice lacks the range of tonal color
                                  G
Necessary to make it consistently interesting
C                             Bb                         G    G/F Em G/D 2x
Full time consideration of an other endeavor might be in order

G                    G/F            Em                        G
He came back home to Dayton and was questioned by his friends
        G                    G/F            Em         D
Then he smiled and just said nothing and he never sang again
C                   Bb                Am                G
Excepting very late at night when the shop was dark and closed
                                                   D
He sang softly to himself as he sorted through the clothes


[Chorus]
G Bm                             Am7
  Music was his life, it was not his livelihood
       Em                         G                D
And it made him feel so happy, it made him feel so good
       G/B           C            G             D
And he sang from his heart and he sang from his soul
       G                C
And he did not know how well he sang
Bb      Abmaj7   G
It just made him whole