The Dutchman

In response to a request for this 
song, here are the lyrics, chords
and some tablature for the * tab is 
somewhat simplified from the
way I actually play it (since I'm 
never exactly sure what my fingers 
are doing
when I'm fingerpicking) but it 
should get you started on a picking 
pattern. I
use barre forms of the Dm, G, and Em
 (barring the 5th, 3rd, and 7th 
fret,
respectively) in the verses and use 
the simpler forms in the * seems
to make the bass work out nicely. 
Finally, I apologize if I've 
misnamed the C
chords. I've given the forms, call 
them what you will.

Enjoy,
Denny Straussfogel


Chords:
        C               x32010
        C/A             x02010
        C9/B (?)        x20010

Intro and first two lines:
    C                   C/A
E|----------------0---------------
B|--1----------------1--1---------
G|-------------0----------------0-
D|-------2-------------------2----
A|--3-------------------0---------
E|--------------------------------
    ^          ^        ^       ^ 

E|-0------| 
B|-----1--| 
G|--------| 
D|--------| 
A|--------| 
E|--------| 
          


  C9/B                   C/A
|-----------------0---------------
|-1------------------1---1--------
|-----------0---------------------
|-------0--------------------2----
|-2----------------------0--------
|---------------------------------
  ^         ^            ^        

||---0----| 
||------1-| 
||0-------| 
||--------| 
||--------| 
||--------| 
^         

  keeps his thumb jammed in the   
dam  ..

    C                  C/A
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    C9/B                      C6
Who keeps his thumb jammed in the 
dam
     Dm
That holds his dreams in
G                        C       
But that's a secret only Margret 
      C/A  C9/B  C/A
knows
     C            C/A
When Amsterdam is golden
       C9/B            C/A
in the summer, Margret brings him 
breakfast;
Dm
she believes him
G                            Em
He thinks the tulips bloom beneath 
the snow
            Dm            G       
He's mad as he can be but Margret 
     Em
only sees that sometimes
              Dm             
Sometimes she sees her unborn 
 G               C      C7
children in his eyes

(Chorus:)
       F         G            Em
Let us go to the banks of the ocean
          Dm         G       
Where the walls rise above the 
         C   C7
Zeider Zee
      F     G            Em
Long ago, I used to be a young man
    Dm        G                C  
But Margret remembers that for me
C/A  C9/B  C/A



His coat and cap are patched with
The love that Margret sewed there
Sometimes he thinks he's still in 
Rotterdam
He watches tugboats, down canals
And calls out to them when he thinks
He knows the captains
'Til Margret comes to take him home 
again
Through unforgiving streets that 
trip him
Though she holds his arm
Sometimes he thinks that he's alone
And calls out her name.

(Chorus)

The windmills whirl the winter in
She winds his muffler tighter as 
they sit in the kitchen
Some tea with whiskey keeps away the
 dew
He sees her for a moment, calls her 
name
She makes the bed up singing some 
old love song
A song that Margret learned when it 
was very new
He hums a line or two, they sing 
together in the dark

(Chorus)