Trapper Man chords by Mark Knopfler

Chords with lyrics

| C majorC Cadd9Cadd9 | C majorC Cadd9Cadd9 | Intro

| C majorC Am7Am7 | C/GC/G Am7Am7 | x2


   C majorC            Am7Am7     C/GC/G Am7Am7
The trapper man’s in from the hinterlands
 FF            C majorC        Am7Am7 C/GC/G Am7Am7
Filth and grease on his clothes and hands
     C majorC        Am7Am7     C/GC/G Am7Am7
From the outermost, the farthermost
    FF         C majorC      Am7Am7 C/GC/G C majorC
Comes riding in to the trading post


    FF
Got a pack horse loaded up with hides
   DmDm
Steps in to see the man inside
    C majorC       Am7Am7
‘I got furs, skins, a little meat too
 G+G
Here, I got a good piece just for you’

| C majorC Am7Am7 | C/GC/G Am7Am7 | x2


   C majorC         Am7Am7      C/GC/G Am7Am7
‘You take this home to give the wife’
   FF         C majorC       Am7Am7 C/GC/G Am7Am7
The trapper draws his skinning knife
     C majorC          Am7Am7       C/GC/G Am7Am7
Now the fat man’s desk is a butcher’s block
   FF        C majorC       Am7Am7 C/GC/G C majorC
The trapper cuts the meat and talks


        FF
‘You’re gonna lose your shirt on a nowhere man
 DmDm
Lose your shirt in nowhere land
 C majorC         Am7Am7
Back out there is my country
   G+G                 FF   G+G A minorAm
And you best let this trapper be the trapper
    FF   C majorC    Am7Am7   C/GC/G     Am7Am7
You need the trapper man (the trapper man)
   C majorC     Am7Am7 C/GC/G Am7Am7
The trapper man

| C majorC Am7Am7 | C/GC/G Am7Am7 | 2/4 FF |
| C majorC Am7Am7 | C/GC/G Am7Am7 | x2


    C majorC           Am7Am7        C/GC/G Am7Am7
If you don’t want to be where lightning strikes
 FF           C majorC     Am7Am7 C/GC/G Am7Am7
Better let me work the way I like
 C majorC              Am7Am7      C/GC/G Am7Am7
You don’t want to know how I fill my sacks
   FF        C majorC        Am7Am7 C/GC/G C majorC
You go out there you don’t come back


     FF
You got nature red in tooth and claw
   DmDm
And you ain’t got no rule of law
  C majorC         Am7Am7
And if you don’t know nature’s way
G+G                         FF   G+G A minorAm
All that’s gonna stop you being the prey is the trapper
    FF   C majorC    Am7Am7   C/GC/G     Am7Am7
You need the trapper man (the trapper man)
   C majorC     Am7Am7 C/GC/G Am7Am7
The trapper man


| No Chord | x4


You wanna wear them gems and rings

You wanna show off them shiny things

Shake your moneymaker, bro

Where the movers and the shakers go


You wanna go do what you do

Let the gold and silver come to you

So leave the dirty work to me, yeah
 FF         G+G       FF   G+G A minorAm
You best let this trapper be the trapper
    FF   C majorC    Am7Am7   C/GC/G     Am7Am7
You need the trapper man (the trapper man)
   C majorC     Am7Am7 C/GC/G Am7Am7
The trapper man


| C majorC Am7Am7 | C/GC/G Am7Am7 | 2/4 FF |
| C majorC Am7Am7 | C/GC/G Am7Am7 | x2


      C majorC         Am7Am7     C/GC/G Am7Am7
When he’s done his thing and gone his way
   FF        C majorC      Am7Am7 C/GC/G Am7Am7
The fat men light cigars and say
 C majorC        Am7Am7      C/GC/G Am7Am7
“Holy smokes did you see that?
  FF            C majorC      Am7Am7 C/GC/G C majorC
We all made money on the trapper cat”


 FF
Sit back in their big ass chairs
    DmDm
Say, “Boys, that is the man right there”
     C majorC         Am7Am7
I’m the lifeline for your big soft ass
      G+G                  FF   G+G A minorAm
It’s the trapper puts it in first class, the trapper
    FF   C majorC    Am7Am7   C/GC/G    Am7Am7
You need the trapper man (the trapper man)
   C majorC     Am7Am7 C/GC/G Am7Am7
The trapper man


| C majorC Am7Am7 | C/GC/G Am7Am7 | x6

| C majorC |