Mr Tanner chords by Harry Chapin

G(5fr) - G/F - G/E - G/D - G(5fr) - G/F - G/E - G/D

    G(5fr)     G/F     G/E      G/D
Mister Tanner was a cleaner from a town in the Midwest.

    G(5fr)      G/F     G/E        D
And of all the cleaning shops around he'd made his the best.

C       Bb      Am7           G
He Also was a baritone who sang while hanging clothes

G(5fr)          G/F        G/E        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 instead of cleaning coats.


D7 G      Bm
O, fall on your knees
     But music was his life

    Am             Em
O, hear the angel voices
It was not his livelihood, and it made him

            G        D/F#  G/B      C/G
O, night divine, O, night
feel so happy, and it made him feel so good He sang from his heart

     G      D    G        C      G     C   G(5fr)
O, night divine___________________________________________
And he sang from his soul. He did not know how well he sang, it just made him whole.

G/F G/E G/D G(5fr) G/F G/E G/D

   G(5fr)       G/F      G/E      G/D
His friends kept working on him to try music out full time

G(5fr)      G/F       G/E       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(5fr)     G/F      G/E        D
A concert agent in New York agreed to have him sing

      Em              D
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


D7 G      Bm
O, fall on your knees
     But music was his life

    Am             Em
O, hear the angel voices
It was not his livelihood, and it made him

            G        D/F#  G/B      C/G
O, night divine, O, night
feel so happy, and it made him feel so good He sang from his heart

     G      D    G        C      G     C   G(5fr)
O, night divine___________________________________________
And he sang from his soul. He did not know how well he sang, it just made him whole.

G/F G/E G/D G G/D G/E G/F
G(5fr) G/F G/E G/D G G/D G/E G/F


G(5fr)        G/F   G/E  G/D G   G/D G/E G/F
The evening came, he took the stage, his face set in a smile

    G(5fr)        G/F  G/E  G/D G   G/D G/E D
In the half-filled hall the critics sat   watching on the aisle

C         Bb      Am7      G
The concert was a blur to him, spatters of applause

  G(5fr)      G/F   G/E G/D G  G/D G/E 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
And no one could accuse them of being overkind



  G(5fr)            G/F
Mr. Martin Tanner, a baritone, of Dayton, Ohio

          Eb(no 5th)
Made his town hall debut last night

            G(no 3rd)/D
He came well prepared, but unfortunately his presentation

C(no 3rd)         Gm/Bb
was not up to contemporary professional standards

        Abmaj7
His voice lacks the range of tonal color

     G
necessary to make it consistently interesting

C              Gm/Bb
Full-time consideration of another endeavor

      G(5fr)
Might be in order

G/F - G/E - G/D - G - G/F - G/E -G/D

 G(5fr)      G/F      G/E        G/D
He came home to Dayton and was questioned by his friends

    G(5fr)        G/F      G/E     G/D
But he smiled and just said nothing and he never sang again

  C      Bb           Am7        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


D7 G      Bm
O, fall on your knees
     But music was his life

  Am               Em
O, hear the angel voices
It was not his livelihood, and it made him

            G        D   G/B      C
O, night divine, O, night
feel so happy, and it made him feel so good He sang from his heart

    G       D    G        C      Bb    F     G
O, night divine___________________________________________
And he sang from his soul. He did not know how well he sang, it just made him whole