The Trader chords by The Beach Boys
Verse 1
D
Hi
Trader
Trader sailed a jeweled crown
A
F#m
Humanity rowed the way
G
Exploring to command more land
A
D
Em
Scheming how to rule
D
G
D
the waves.
Trader spied a virgin plain
A
F#m
And named it for velvet robes
G
Wrote home declaring,
"There's a place
D
Em
D
Where totally folks are free
G
A
(Happily completely)
G
Nourishment fills the prair
Em
ies and the hillsides
D
A
D
And animals stalk the
G
Em
mountains and the seaside
D
A
D
A
G
And fish abound the lakes
D
and birds the skies
A
D
Signed sincerely."
Verse 2
D
Trader found the jeweled land
A
F#m
Was occupied before he came
G
By humans of a second look
D
Em
Who couldn't even write their
D
G
D
names shame
Trader said they're not as good
A
F#m
As folks who wear velvet robes
G
Wrote home again and asked,
"Please help
D
Em
Their breasts I see; they're
D
G
not like me
A
D
Banish them from our prair
G
Em
ies and our hillsides
D
A
D
Clear them from our mountains
G
Em
and our sea side
D
A
D
G
Em
I want them off our lakes so please reply
D
A
Signed sincerely."
D
G
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Verse 3
D
Trader he got the crown okay
A
F#m
Cleared humanity from his way
G
A
G
He civilized all he saw
D
Em
D
G
Making changes every single day say
A
D
G
Shops sprang over the prair
Em
ies and the hillsides
D
A
D
Then roads cut through the
G
Em
mountains to the seaside
D
A
G
D
The other kind fled to hide, by and by,
A
And so sincerely
G
Cried.
Verse 4
G
C
Making it softly
Like the evening sea, trying to be
Em
G
Making it go
C
Creating it gently
C#
C
Like a morning breeze, a life of ease
Eyes that see
G
D
Em
C
Beyond tomorrow,
D
Em
D
C
through to the time without hours
D
Em
G
C
Passing the Eden of Flowers
Am
G
Reason to live.
Em
Embracing to
Verse 5
C
gether
Like the merging streams,
crying dreams
G
Making it full
C
Begging intently
For a slight reprieve, a night of ease
Hands to touch
Am
G
Em
G
C
Bey ond the sorrow,
D
Em
D
C
on to the force without power
D
Em
G
C
Piercing the crust of the tower
Interlude 1
Reason to live.
C
Em
D
C
Em
D
C
Em
D
C
G
C
Verse 6
Hoping
Like a budding rose, humbling shows
G
Making it.
C
Struggling lonely
Like a desert field,
G
C
break the seal, make it real
Am
Ears to hear
G
Em
C
Beyond the showers,
Em
G
C
on to the suns of tomorrows
D
Em
G
C
Burning the flesh of all sorrows
C
Reason to live.
C
Reason to continue
C
Reason to go on
C
Reason to live
Reason to live
Reason to live
The Trader
The Beach Boys
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