Mr Tanner chords by Harry Chapin

Chords with lyrics

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

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

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

C majorC       Bb majorBb      Am7Am7           G+G
He Also was a baritone who sang while hanging clothes

G(5fr)          G/F        G/EG/E        D MajorD
He practiced scales while pressing tails and sang at local shows.

   E minorEm                     D MajorD
His friends and neighbors praised the voice that poured out from his throat

   E minorEm               D MajorD
They said that he should use his gift instead of cleaning coats.

D7D7 G+G      B minorBm
O, fall on your knees
     But music was his life

    A minorAm             E minorEm
O, hear the angel voices
It was not his livelihood, and it made him

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

     G+G      D MajorD    G+G        C majorC      G+G     C majorC   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/EG/E G/DG/D G(5fr) G/F G/EG/E G/DG/D

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

G(5fr)      G/F       G/EG/E       D MajorD
A augmentedA big debut and rave reviews, a great career to climb

C majorC       Bb majorBb     Am7Am7         G+G
Finally they got to him, he would take the fling

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

      E minorEm              D MajorD
There were plane tickets, phone calls, money spent to rent the hall

  E minorEm                D MajorD
It took most of his savings, but he gladly used them all

D7D7 G+G      B minorBm
O, fall on your knees
     But music was his life

    A minorAm             E minorEm
O, hear the angel voices
It was not his livelihood, and it made him

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

     G+G      D MajorD    G+G        C majorC      G+G     C majorC   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/EG/E G/DG/D G+G G/DG/D G/EG/E G/F
G(5fr) G/F G/EG/E G/DG/D G+G G/DG/D G/EG/E G/F


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

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

C majorC         Bb majorBb      Am7Am7      G+G
The concert was a blur to him, spatters of applause

  G(5fr)      G/F   G/EG/E G/DG/D G+G  G/DG/D G/EG/E D MajorD
He did not know how well he sang, he only heard the flaws

     E minorEm           D MajorD
But the critics were concise; it only took four lines

  E minorEm              D MajorD
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

        Abmaj7Abmaj7
His voice lacks the range of tonal color

     G+G
necessary to make it consistently interesting

C majorC              Gm/Bb
Full-time consideration of another endeavor

      G(5fr)
Might be in order

G/F - G/EG/E - G/DG/D - G+G - G/F - G/EG/E -G/D

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

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

  C majorC      Bb majorBb           Am7Am7        G+G
Excepting very late at night when the shop was dark and closed

                          D MajorD
He sang softly to himself as he sorted through the clothes


D7D7 G+G      B minorBm
O, fall on your knees
     But music was his life

  A minorAm               E minorEm
O, hear the angel voices
It was not his livelihood, and it made him

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

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