On having a tin ear

I have no ear for music

            I’m as tone deaf as can be

even when I gargle

            I sound terribly off key.

If I sing in the shower

            it can make a strong man weep

no audience would stand for me –

            they’d all fall in a heap.

I’d carry tunes so carefully

            If only I could sing –

carry them for miles and miles

If I sang like Frank or Bing.

By She