Top Ten Reasons for Being a Tenor

10 ) Tenors get high–without drugs.

9 ) Name a musical where the Bass got the girl.

8 ) You can show the Sopranos how it SHOULD be sung.

7 ) Did you ever hear of anyone paying $1000 for a ticket to see “The Three Basses?”

6 ) Who needs brains when you’ve got resonance?

5 ) Tenors never have to waste time looking through the self-improvement section of the bookstore.

4 ) You get to sing along with John Denver singing High Calypso.

3 ) When you get really good at falsetto, you can make tons of money doing voice-overs for cartoon characters.

2 ) Gregorian chant was practically invented for Tenors. Nobody invented a genre for Basses.

1 ) You can entertain your friends by impersonating Julia Child.