The Beach Boys - The Trader Lyrics

Lyrics The Trader - The Beach Boys



(Jonah:) Hi
Trader
Trader sailed a jeweled crown
Humanity rowed the way
Exploring to command more land
Scheming how to rule the waves.
Trader spied a virgin plain
And named it for velvet robes
Wrote home declaring there's a place
Where totally folks are free
(Happily completely)
Nourishment fills the prairies and the hillsides
And animals stalk the mountains and the seaside
And fish abound the lakes and birds the skies
Signed sincerely
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
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
Trader he got the crown okay
Cleared humanity from his way
He civilized all he saw
Making changes every single day say
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 cried
Making it softly
Like the evening sea, trying to be
Making it go
Creating it gently
Like a morning breeze, a life of ease
Eyes that see
Beyond tomorrow, through to the time without hours
Passing the Eden of Flowers
Reason to live
Embracing together
Like the merging streams, crying dreams
Making it full
Begging intently
For a slight reprieve, a night of ease
Hands to touch
Beyond the sorrow, on to the force without power
Piercing the crust of the tower
Reason to live
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
Reason to live
Reason to continue
Reason to go on
Reason to live
Reason to live
Reason to live




The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of The Beach Boys
Album Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of The Beach Boys
date of release
29-06-1993

1 Funky Pretty
2 The Trader
3 Surfer Girl (Live In Hawaii, Rehearsals 1967)
4 It's Over Now
5 Cabin Essence (Track Only)
6 In My Room (Demo)
7 Our Team
8 Still I Dream of It
9 Radio Spot #1
10 Radio Spot #2
11 Dance, Dance, Dance (Tracking Session)
12 Good Vibrations (Live 1966)
13 Be True to Your School (Live 1964)
14 Surfer Girl (Live 1964)
15 Concert Intro / Surfin' U.S.A. (Live 1964)
16 Radio Spot #4
17 California Girls (Vocals)
18 Wouldn't It Be Nice (Vocals)
19 When I Grow Up (To Be a Man) [Vocals]
20 Hushabye (Vocals)
21 All Summer Long (Vocals)
22 Radio Spot #3
23 Surf's Up (Track Only)
24 Heroes and Villains (Track Only)
25 Good Vibrations (Sessions)
26 God Only Knows (Tracking Session)
27 Hang On to Your Ego (Sessions)
28 Wendy (Vocals)
29 Surfin' U.S.A. (Demo Version)
30 Little Surfer Girl
31 Surfin' (Rehearsal)
32 Surfin'
33 Their Hearts Were Full of Spring (Demo Version)
34 Surfin' Safari (Mono)
35 409 (Mono)
36 Punchline (Mono)
37 Surfin' U.S.A. (Mono)
38 Shut Down (Mono)
39 Surfer Girl (Mono)
40 Little Deuce Coupe (Mono)
41 In My Room (Mono)
42 Catch a Wave
43 The Surfer Moon
44 Be True to Your School (Single Version) [Mono]
45 Spirit of America
46 Little Saint Nick (Single Version) [Mono]
47 Things We Did Last Summer
48 Fun, Fun, Fun (Single Version) [Mono]
49 Don't Worry Baby (Mono)
50 Why Do Fools Fall in Love (Mono)
51 The Warmth of the Sun (Mono)
52 I Get Around (Mono)
53 All Summer Long
54 Little Honda (Mono)
55 Wendy (Mono)
56 Don't Back Down (Mono)
57 Do You Wanna Dance?
58 When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)
59 Please Let Me Wonder
60 She Knows Me Too Well
61 Radio Station Jingles
62 Concert Promo / Hushabye (Live)
63 California Girls
64 Help Me, Rhonda
65 Then I Kissed Her
66 And Your Dream Comes True
67 The Little Girl I Once Knew
68 Barbara Ann
69 Ruby Baby
70 KOMA (Radio Promo Spot)
71 Sloop John B
72 Wouldn't It Be Nice
73 You Still Believe In Me
74 God Only Knows
75 Hang On to Your Ego (Alternate Version)
76 I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
77 Pet Sounds
78 Caroline, No
79 Good Vibrations (Mono)
80 Our Prayer
81 Heroes and Villains (Alternate Version)
82 Heroes and Villains (Sections)
83 Wonderful
84 Cabinessence
85 Wind Chimes
86 Heroes and Villains (Intro)
87 Do You Like Worms
88 Vegetables
89 I Love to Say Da Da
90 Surf's Up
91 With Me Tonight
92 Heroes and Villains (Single Version)
93 Darlin'
94 Wild Honey
95 Let the Wind Blow
96 Can't Wait Too Long - Alternate Version
97 Cool, Cool Water
98 Meant for You
99 Friends
100 Little Bird
101 Busy Doin' Nothin'
102 Do It Again
103 I Can Hear Music
104 I Went to Sleep
105 Time to Get Alone
106 Break Away
107 Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) [Single Version]
108 San Miguel
109 Games Two Can Play
110 I Just Got My Pay
111 This Whole World
112 Add Some Music
113 Forever
114 Our Sweet Love
115 H.E.L.P. Is On the Way
116 4th of July
117 Long Promised Road
118 Disney Girls (1957)
119 'Til I Die
120 Sail On, Sailor
121 California
122 Fairy Tale Music
123 You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone
124 Marcella
125 All This Is That




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