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Mister Tanner was a cleaner from a town in the Midwest.
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And of all the cleaning shops around he'd made his the best.
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He Also was a baritone who sang while hanging clothes
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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.
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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
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O, night divine, O, night
feel so happy, and it made him feel so good He sang from his heart
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O, night divine___________________________________________
And he sang from his soul. He did not know how well he sang, it just made him whole.
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G(5fr) G/F G/E G/D
His friends kept working on him to try music out full time
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A big debut and rave reviews, a great career to climb
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Finally they got to him, he would take the fling
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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.
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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
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In the half-filled hall the critics sat watching on the aisle
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The concert was a blur to him, spatters of applause
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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
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Mr. Martin Tanner, a baritone, of Dayton, Ohio
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Made his town hall debut last night
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He came well prepared, but unfortunately his presentation
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was not up to contemporary professional standards
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His voice lacks the range of tonal color
G
necessary to make it consistently interesting
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Full-time consideration of another endeavor
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Might be in order
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He came home to Dayton and was questioned by his friends
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But he smiled and just said nothing and he never sang again
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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
