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# Kelly Clarkson's Soulful Cover of Mister Rogers’ 'Won’t You Be My Neighbor?' Is Exactly What You Need to Hear

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## Melissa Locker


Dec 3, 2019 5:29 PM UTC

by 

[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


Dec 3, 2019 5:29 PM UTC

It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood—whatever neighborhood you’re in—and that is a good enough reason to listen to Kelly Clarkson evocatively cover this classic [Mister Rogers](https://time.com/5290424/excerpt-mister-rogers-biography/) tune.

On _The Kelly Clarkson Show_, the singer has a regular segment called “Kellyoke,” in which she performs a cover of a song she particularly loves or which is relevant to a guest who is scheduled to appear. Since [Tom Hanks](https://time.com/5123874/tom-hanks-mr-rogers-reactions/), who [plays Fred Rogers](https://time.com/5732665/tom-hanks-mister-rogers-related/) in the film _A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood_, was the guest on Tuesday’s episode of the show, it was the perfect opportunity for her to cover “[Won’t You Be My Neighbor?](http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,88632,00.html)”

The tune is best known to generations of children as the song Mister Rogers sang on each episode of his long-running public television show, _Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood_. In the film, which is [based on a true story](https://time.com/5733017/a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood-true-story/), Hanks stars as [Mister Rogers](https://time.com/5736808/a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood-review/) as he is followed by a prickly journalist assigned to profile him [for a story](https://time.com/5733017/a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood-true-story/), and the unlikely friendship that follows.

It’s a heartwarming story about one of the kindest men to ever grace the American air waves and, appropriately enough, Clarkson’s version tugs at the heart strings. She transforms the song from a simple ditty designed to entertain kids to a soulful torch song. It will soothe your spirit, while making you reach for the tissue box. And it will likely have you agreeing to be her neighbor or anyone’s neighbor, really.

In short, it’s just like Mr. Rogers probably would have wanted. Listen here:

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