"Trapper Jacket Joe" lyrics - GEORGE MCANTHONY

"During a crazy country festival in Arvier, Aosta in July 1997 I invented this song right away on stage. For some strange reason people kept asking for it during the whole summer tour. I thought I had to improve the music and mainly the words, but in the end I decided to leave it the way it was."

Trapper Jacket Joe, gone to the left, gone to the right
Trapper Jacket Joe, gone to Ohio
Move to Tennessee, what a place to be
Fly to Canada, Trapper Jacket Joe don't you move too far

Cowboy Hat Marie, waiting for the ship, sailing to the sea
Cowboy Hat Marie, ain't got no destiny
She's looking for a man who's looking for a wife
Looking for a man who wants to live a cowboy life

Heyoh Yippiayeh, Trapper Jacket Joe and Hat Marie
Heyoh Yippiayeh, Joe and Marie
He dreams about a girl who loves the rodeo,
She dreams about a man just the same as Jacket Joe

Cowboy Hat Marie is going to the Jamboree,
Cowboy Hat Marie who're you gonna see
Somebody who is cool, someone who's true
It's Trapper Jacket Joe, he's gonna fall in love with you

Heyoh Yippiayeh, Trapper Jacket Joe and Hat Marie
Heyoh Yippiayeh, Joe and Marie
He dreams about a girl who loves the rodeo,
Now he's got a girl who loves the rodeo
And she has got a man, you're lucky that you've found her, Joe

Trapper Jacket Joe, he's got her and he loves her
Trapper Jacket Joe, never ever let her go
But there's another guy called Pepperoni Bill
He has come to town looking for a country-girl

But Cowboy Hat Marie, she just doesn't like Bill
Cowboy Hat Marie loves Joe, she always will
'Cause Billy he has got that "Pepperoni Nose",
And Joe he's so nice, yeah, he's the one she loves the most

Heyoh Yippiayeh, Trapper Jacket Joe and Hat Marie
Heyoh Yippiayeh, Joe and Marie