Trapper man
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(2x)
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1. The trapper man’s in from the hinterlands,
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filth
and grease on his clothes and hands.
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- C - Am
From the outermost, the
farthermost
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comes
riding in to the trading post.
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Got a pack horse loaded up
with hides,
Dm
steps
in to see the man inside.
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‘I got furs, skins, a little
meat, too,
G
here,
I got a good piece just for you’.
+ C - Am - C
- Am
(2x)
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Am - C - Am
2. ‘You take this home to give the wife’.
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C
- Am - C - Am
the
trapper draws his skinning knife.
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Now the fat man’s desk is a
butcher’s block
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the
trapper cuts the meat and talks.
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You’re gonna
lose your shirt on a nowhere man,
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lose
your shirt in nowhere land, back out there is my country,
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and
you best let this trapper be the trapper man,
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- Am C
- Am
You need the trapper man (the trapper man),
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the trapper man.
+ C - Am - C -
Am - F - C (2x)
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3. If you don’t want to be where lightning strikes
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better
let me work the way I like.
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- C - Am
You don’t want to know how I
fill my sacks,
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you
go out there, you don’t come back.
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You got nature red in tooth
and claw,
Dm
and
you ain’t got no rule of law,
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and
if you don’t know nature’s way
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All that’s gonna
stop you being the prey is the trapper man.
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You need the trapper man (the trapper man),
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the
trapper man.
+ (percussion)
C Am
+ You wanna wear them gems and rings,
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you wanna show off them shiny things,
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shake
your moneymaker, bro,
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where
the movers and the shakers go.
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You wanna
go do what you do,
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let
the gold and silver come to you.
C Am
So leave the dirty work to me,
yeah,
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you
best let this trapper be the trapper man.
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- Am C - Am
You need the trapper man (the trapper man),
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the trapper man.
+ C - Am - C - Am
- F - C (2x)
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4. When he’s done his thing and gone his way
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the
fat men light cigars and say.
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Am
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“Holy smokes did you see that ?
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We all made money on the
trapper cat.”
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Sit back in their big ass
chairs,
Dm
say,
“Boys, that is the man right there.”
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I’m the lifeline for your big
soft ass
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it’s
the trapper puts it in first class, the trapper man,
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You need the trapper man (the trapper man),
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the trapper man.
+ C - Am - C -
Am (6x)
+ C
(orig. = capo 2nd) (Mark
Knopfler)