| C Cadd9 | C Cadd9 | Intro

| C Am7 | C/G Am7 | x2


      C                        Am7         C/G  Am7
The trapper man’s in from the hinterlands
 F                        C                Am7  C/G  Am7
Filth and grease on his clothes and hands
         C               Am7         C/G  Am7
From the outermost, the farthermost
       F                 C           Am7  C/G  C
Comes riding in to the trading post


       F
Got a pack horse loaded up with hides
      Dm
Steps in to see the man inside
        C              Am7
‘I got furs, skins, a little meat too
 G
Here, I got a good piece just for you’


| C Am7 | C/G Am7 | x2


      C                 Am7            C/G  Am7
‘You take this home to give the wife’
      F                 C             Am7  C/G  Am7
The trapper draws his skinning knife
         C                   Am7             C/G  Am7
Now the fat man’s desk is a butcher’s block
      F               C              Am7  C/G  C
The trapper cuts the meat and talks


               F
‘You’re gonna lose your shirt on a nowhere man
 Dm
Lose your shirt in nowhere land
 C                 Am7
Back out there is my country
     G                                 F      G  Am
And you best let this trapper be the trapper
        F      C        Am7     C/G         Am7
You need the trapper man (the trapper man)
      C          Am7  C/G  Am7
The trapper man


| C Am7 | C/G Am7 | 2/4 F |
| C Am7 | C/G Am7 | x2


        C                      Am7               C/G  Am7
If you don’t want to be where lightning strikes
 F                      C          Am7  C/G  Am7
Better let me work the way I like
 C                            Am7           C/G  Am7
You don’t want to know how I fill my sacks
     F                C               Am7  C/G  C
You go out there you don’t come back


         F
You got nature red in tooth and claw
     Dm
And you ain’t got no rule of law
    C                  Am7
And if you don’t know nature’s way
G                                                 F      G  Am
All that’s gonna stop you being the prey is the trapper
        F      C        Am7     C/G         Am7
You need the trapper man (the trapper man)
      C          Am7  C/G  Am7
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
 F                  G              F      G  Am
You best let this trapper be the trapper
        F      C        Am7     C/G         Am7
You need the trapper man (the trapper man)
      C          Am7  C/G  Am7
The trapper man


| C Am7 | C/G Am7 | 2/4 F |
| C Am7 | C/G Am7 | x2


           C                  Am7          C/G  Am7
When he’s done his thing and gone his way
     F               C            Am7  C/G  Am7
The fat men light cigars and say
  C               Am7           C/G  Am7
“Holy smokes did you see that?
   F                       C           Am7  C/G  C
We all made money on the trapper cat”


 F
Sit back in their big ass chairs
       Dm
Say, “Boys, that is the man right there”
         C                 Am7
I’m the lifeline for your big soft ass
           G                                   F      G  Am
It’s the trapper puts it in first class, the trapper
        F      C        Am7     C/G        Am7
You need the trapper man (the trapper man)
      C          Am7  C/G  Am7
The trapper man