Top Ten Reasons for Being a Bass

10 ) You don’t have to tighten your shorts to reach your note.

9 ) You don’t have to worry about a woman stealing your job.

8 ) Or a pre-adolescent boy.

7 ) Action heroes are always Basses. That is, if they ever sang, they would sing bass.

6 ) You get great memorable lyrics like “bop, bop, bop, bop.”

5 ) If the singing job doesn’t work out, there’s always broadcasting.

4 ) You never need to learn to read the treble clef.

3 ) If you get a cold, so what?

2 ) For fun, you can sing at the bottom of your range and fool people into thinking there’s an earthquake.

1 ) If you belch while you’re singing, the audience just thinks it’s part of the score.