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