Biography:
Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer and film score composer. He was the lead guitarist, lead singer, and songwriter for the rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded with his younger brother, David Knopfler, in 1977. He was born in Glasgow but raised near Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
Since Dire Straits disbanded in 1995, Knopfler has recorded and produced nine solo albums and, as with his previous band, produced many hit songs.
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Other songs:
- Brothers In Arms
- Camerado
- Princess Bride Song (storybook Love)
- Remembrance Day
- Romeo And Juliet
- Sailing To Philadelphia
- Speedway At Nazareth
- Storybook Love (the Princess Bride Song)
- True Love Will Never Fade
- What It Is
- 38 Special
- 5 15 Am
- A Night In Summer Long Ago
- After The Beanstalk
- All That I Have In The World
- All That Matters
- All The Roadrunning
- Are We In Trouble Now
- Back On The Dance Floor
- Back To Tupelo
- Baloney Again
- Basil
- Before Gas And Tv
- Behind With The Rent
- Belle Starr
- Beryl
- Beyond My Wildest Dreams
- Blood And Water
- Bluebird
- Boom Like That
- Border Reiver
- Broken Bones
- Cannibals
- Cleaning My Gun
- Corned Beef City
- Daddys Gone To Knoxville
- Darling Pretty
- Devil Baby
- Done With Bonaparte
- Donkey Town
- Dont You Get It
- Down The Road Wherever
- Dream Of The Drowned Submariner
- Drovers Road
- Early Bird
- El Macho
- Every Heart In The Room
- Everybody Pays
- Fare Thee Well Northumberland
- Floating Away
- Get Lucky
- Go Love
- Golden Heart
- Good As Gold
- Good On You Son
- Got To Have Something
- Hard Shoulder
- Haul Away
- Heart Full Of Holes
- Heart Of Oak
- Heavy Up
- Hill Farmers Blues
- Home Boy
- Hot Dog
- I Dug Up A Diamond
- I Used To Could
- If I Had You
- If This Is Goodbye
- In The Sky
- Je Suis Desole
- Je Suis Dsol
- Junkie Doll
- Just A Boy Away From Home
- Kill To Get Crimson
- Kingdom Of Gold
- Laughs And Jokes And Drinks And Smokes
- Let It All Go
- Lights Of Taormina
- Lily Of The West
- Long Cool Girl
- Madame Genevas
- Matchstick Man
- Metroland
- Mighty Man
- Miss You Blues
- Monteleone
- My Bacon Roll
- My Claim To Fame
- My Heart Has Never Changed
- No Wonder Hes Confused
- Nobody Does That
- Nobodys Child
- Occupation Blues
- Oklahoma Ponies
- Old Pigweed
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- One More Matinee
- One Song At A Time
- Our Shangri
- Piper To The End
- Postcards From Paraguay
- Prairie Wedding
- Privateering
- Pulling Down The Ride
- Punish The Monkey
- Quality Shoe
- Radio City Serenade
- Raglan Road
- Redbud Tree
- Right Now
- River Of Grog
- River Towns
- Rollin On
- Rudiger
- Sands Of Nevada
- Seattle
- Secondarty Waltz
- Secondary Waltz
- Shangri
- Silver Eagle
- Silvertown Blues
- Sky And Water
- Skydiver
- Slow Learner
- Small Potatoes
- So Far From The Clyde
- Someday
- Song For Sonny Liston
- Stand Up Guy
- Storybook Love
- Stretching Out
- Sucker Row
- Tall Order Baby
- Terminal Of Tribute To
- The Car Was The One
- The Fish And The Bird
- The Fizzy And The Still
- The Last Laugh
- The Long Highway
- The Ragpickers Dream
- The Scaffolders Wife
- The Trawlermans Song
- The Way It Always Starts
- This Is Us
- Time Will End All Sorrow
- Tracker
- Trapper Man
- Trawlermans Song
- Vic And Ray
- Wanderlust
- Water Of Love
- We Can Get Wild
- When You Leave
- Wherever I Go
- Whoop De Doo
- Whos Your Baby Now
- Why Aye Man
- Yon Two Crows
- You Dont Know Youre Born
- Your Perfect Song
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Tuning: Standard
Capo: 2nd fret
Key: D
| 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
| C Am7 | C/G Am7 | x6
| C |
Capo: 2nd fret
Key: D
| 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
| C Am7 | C/G Am7 | x6
| C |
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