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The Trader (Carl Wilson/Jack Rieley) Album: Holland Part 1: Verse:
DTrader sailed a jeweled crown Ahumanity rowed thF#m7e way G G/F#. Em D Em F#m Exploring to command more land, scheming how to rule the waves. DTrader spied a virgin plain and Anamed it for velvet F#mrobes GWrote home declaring G/F#there's a Emplace where Dtotally Emfolks are F#mfree D/ANourishmentA/C# fills the G/Dprairies and the hillsides AndD/A animalsA/C# stalk the G/Dmountains and the seaside D/A A/C# G/D. D A D 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
Gcried. Part 2:
G/DMaking it F/CsoftCly, like theF/C evening Csea,G/B trying to Cbe C/AMaking it Ggo. C/ACreatingG/B it F/CgentlCy, like aF/C morning Cbreeze, a G/Blife of Cease G/BEyes thatC seeC/A beyD/Eond DtoCmorrow, through to theD/E timDe without Chours Passing the D/EEden Dof CFlowers, C/Areason to Glive.
G/DEmbracing F/CtogeCther, like theF/C merging Cstreams,G/B crying Cdreams C/AMaking it Gfull C/ABegging G/BinteF/CntlyC, for aF/C slight Creprieve, G/Ba night Cof ease G/BHands to CtouchC/A beyD/Eond Dthe Csorrow, on to the D/EforcDe without Cpower Piercing the D/EcrustD of the tCower, rC/Aeason to lGive.
D/E D C D/E D C D/E D C C/A G C/A G/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/Creason to lCive D/CReason to Ccontinue D/CReason to Cgo on D/CReason to Clive D/CReason to Clive D/CReason to Clive