Singer

words and music copyright ©1972 by Howard Ashby Kranz

“Even singing is better than doing nothing.”

-John Ono Lennon

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I want to be a minister, a healer at the spring

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I want to be the soldier who makes the bells to ring

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and I want to be with you, I have nothing to bring

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and so I am a singer, and I sing.

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Downtown I watched the wreckers, I saw a building fall

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There was a man so lonely, stood by me, by the wall

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I cannot be a gatherer; I know no words to call

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and therefore I’m a singer, that is all.