"I don't think there's a man on the whole island who can carry a tune."
I'd be happy to sing the rest of it, if only I could carry a tune.
Sam had a fine voice, deep and true, but Jack could hardly carry a tune.
It would be a beautiful song, if only her father could carry a tune.
He couldn't carry a tune in a bucket, but everyone by then had learned the words.
"Other than two or three, the 22 of us who had come to Russia could hardly carry a tune."
"People who say they can't carry a tune haven't learned to listen," she said.
Fred's ability to carry a tune was quite good in his younger years.
Jane never could carry a tune, he thought with a smile.
"Not one of them that can't carry a tune," he told her after the first evening.