John Hartford - The False Hearted Tenor Waltz lyrics

False-Hearted Tenor My False-Hearted Tenor, falsetto so high I watch all your dobros as they slide on by My person is lonely I think it's because My voice is not high and real thin like a saw What would really be slick now if I learned how to sing But they tell me to pick now 'cause that is my thing It's genu-un-settle (wrong words) a voice without heart I'm out in the meadow and I can't find my part Just because I quit smoking and sit on a stool And sing all them love songs like any dam fool Remember the tenor when we render this waltz I pick on a Fender in a tenor that's false In my highest falsetto I can't sing this high But I dam sure would like to and that's why I try My voice is as much as two pitches too low When I want to get high and get up like Munroe But me no soprano without any pause Just a jug-throated croaker in a tenor that false