Chords for Harry Chapin: MR TANNER 81

_ You guys are outrageous.
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_ _ [Em] all, I'm just so mad [G] _
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_ [Gbm] _ [G] _ _ [C] about this incident [G] and _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I want this guy to worry about sleeping
5,000 times.
His friends kept working [F] on him [Em] to try music [D] out full [G] time.
A big debut [F] in rave [Em] reviews, a great career to [D] climb.
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Finally they got [Bb] to him, [Am] he would [G] take the fling.
A concert [F] agent in New York [Em] agreed to have [D] him sing.
_ And they were [Em] plane tickets and phone calls, [D] money spent to rent the [Em] hall.
It took most of his savings, [D] he would have gladly used them _ all.
_ _ [G] Oh, Father, [Bm]
music was his life, [Am] it was not his livelihood.
[Em] And it made him feel so happy, [G] and it made him [D] feel so old.
[G] And he sang [C] from his heart, and [G] he sang [Em] from [D] his soul.
[G] He did not know [C] how well he [G] sang, it [G] just made him whore. _
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_ [F] [G] When evening [F] came, he [E] took the [D] stage, his [E] voice set in [F] a smile.
[G] In the half [F]-filled hall, [E] the critics [D] sat, watching on the aisle.
[C] But his concert was [Bb] a blur to [Am] him, spatters [G] of applause.
He did not know [F] how well he [E] sang, [G] he only [D] heard the applause. _
[Em] But the critics were concise, [D] it only took four [A] lines.
[Em] No one could accuse them [D] of being over kind.
_ _ _ _ [G] Mr.
Montana Baritone of Dayton, [F] Ohio, made his town hall [Eb] debut last night.
He came well prepared, [G] but unfortunately his presentation was not [C] up to contemporary professional standards.
[Bb] His voice lacks the range of [Ab] tonal color necessary to make it consistently [G] interesting.
_ _ [C] Full-time consideration [Bb] of another endeavor _ [G] might be in order.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ He _ _ came home to Dayton, was questioned by his friends.
But he smiled and just said nothing, [Em] and he never [D] sang again. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] Excepting Mary [Bb] late at night, [A] when the shop was dark [G] and closed.
_ _ _ _ He sang softly to himself, as he sorted through [D] the clothes.
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [C] He sang softly to himself, as [G] he sorted through the clothes.
He sang softly to himself, as he sorted through the clothes. _
From [D] his _ [Bm] soul, [D] and [G] it did not know _ [C] _ his sign.
_ [Bb] It just [F] made _ _ him.
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