Standard (EADGBE)

Verse

Trader sailed a jeweled crown humanity rowed the way

[G/f#].

Exploring to command more land, scheming how to rule the waves.

Trader spied a virgin plain and named it for velvet robes

[G/f#]

Wrote home declaring there's a place where totally folks are free

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.

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

cried.

Part 2:

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