The Trader chords by The Beach Boys

Chords with lyrics

The Trader (Carl Wilson/Jack Rieley)
Album: Holland

Part 1:

Verse:
D MajorD               A augmentedA        F#m7F#m7
Trader sailed a jeweled crown humanity rowed the way
G+G      G/f#.    E minorEm  D MajorD        E minorEm   F# minorF#m
Exploring to command more land, scheming how to rule the waves.
D MajorD                A augmentedA          F# minorF#m
Trader spied a virgin plain and named it for velvet robes
G+G          G/f#   E minorEm     D MajorD    E minorEm    F# minorF#m
Wrote home declaring there's a place where totally folks are free
D/AD/A    A/C#A/C#    G/DG/D
Nourishment fills the prairies and the hillsides
  D/AD/A   A/C#A/C#    G/DG/D
And animals stalk the mountains and the seaside
  D/AD/A  A/C#A/C#   G/D.            D MajorD     A augmentedA  D MajorD
And fish abound the lakes and birds the skies, signed sincerely.

Verse:

Trader found the jeweled land was occupied before he came
By humans of a second look who couldn't even write their names shame
Trader said they're not as good as folks who wear velvet robes
Wrote home again and asked, "Please help, their breasts I see; they're not like me

Chorus:

Banish them from our prairies and our hillsides
Clear them from our mountains and our seaside
I want them off our lakes so please reply, signed sincerely.

Verse:

Trader he got the crown okay, cleared humanity from his way
He civilized all he saw making changes every single day, say

Chorus:

Shops sprang over the prairies and the hillsides
Then roads cut through the mountains to the seaside
The other kind fled to hide, by and by, and so sincerely
G+G
cried.

Part 2:

G/DG/D    FF C majorC      FF   C majorC  G/BG/B    C majorC
Making it softly, like the evening sea, trying to be
C/AC/A    G+G
Making it go.
C/AC/A   G/BG/B FF C majorC    FF   C majorC     G/BG/B   C majorC
Creating it gently, like a morning breeze, a life of ease
G/BG/B   C majorC  C/AC/A D/ED/E D MajorD C majorC           D/ED/E D MajorD     C majorC
Eyes that see beyond tomorrow, through to the time without hours
      D/ED/E D MajorD C majorC    C/AC/A    G+G
Passing the Eden of Flowers, reason to live.

G/DG/D    FF C majorC       FF   C majorC    G/BG/B   C majorC
Embracing together, like the merging streams, crying dreams
C/AC/A    G+G
Making it full
C/AC/A   G/BG/B FF C majorC   FF   C majorC     G/BG/B   C majorC
Begging intently, for a slight reprieve, a night of ease
G/BG/B   C majorC  C/AC/A D/ED/E D MajorD  C majorC         D/ED/E D MajorD     C majorC
Hands to touch beyond the sorrow, on to the force without power
       D/ED/E D MajorD    C majorC   C/AC/A    G+G
Piercing the crust of the tower, reason to live.

D/ED/E D MajorD C majorC  D/ED/E D MajorD C majorC D/ED/E D MajorD C majorC C/AC/A G+G C/AC/A G/BG/B


Hoping, like a budding rose, humbling shows
Making it
Struggling lonely, like a desert field, break the seal, make it real
Ears to hear, beyond the showers, on to the suns of tomorrows
Burning the flesh of all sorrows,
D/C    C majorC
reason to live
D/C    C majorC
Reason to continue
D/C    C majorC
Reason to go on
D/C    C majorC
Reason to live
D/C    C majorC
Reason to live
D/C    C majorC