The Dutchman

Verse 1

C
The Dutchman's not the kind of man

Who keeps his thumb jammed in the dam
Dm
That holds his dreams in,
G                             C
But that's a secret that only Margaret knows.
C
When Amsterdam is golden in the summer,

Margaret brings him breakfast,
Dm
She believes him.
G                           C
He thinks the tulips bloom beneath the snow.
            F              G             C         C B   Am
He's mad as he can be, but Margaret only sees that sometimes,
              F               G               C
Sometimes she sees her unborn children in his eyes.


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       F                      Em
Let us go to the banks of the ocean
          F           G               C
Where the walls rise above the Zuider Zee.
     Dm A   G            C        C B  Am
Long ago, I used to be a young man
         F          G                C
And dear Margaret remembers that for me.
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Verse 2

C
The Dutchman still wears wooden shoes,

His cap and coat are patched with the love
Dm
That Margaret sewed there.
G                                 C
Sometimes he thinks he's still in Rotterdam.
C
And he watches the tug-boats down canals
                                        Dm
An' calls out to them when he thinks he knows the Captain.
     G
Till Margaret comes
            C
To take him home again
             Dm                  G         C C        C B       Am A
Through unforgiving streets that trip him, though she holds his arm,
             F           G                      C
Sometimes he thinks he's alone and he calls her name.



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Verse 3

C
The winters whirl the windmills 'round

She winds his muffler tighter
         Dm
And they sit in the kitchen.
G                                    C
Some tea with whiskey keeps away the dew.
C
And he sees her for a moment, calls her name,
                             Dm
She makes the bed up singing some old love song,
G
A song Margaret learned
            C
When it was very new.
          Dm           G                  C C     C B    Am
He hums a line or two, they sing together in      the    dark.
             F                G              C
The Dutchman falls asleep and Margaret blows the candle out.



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