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                           
But that's a secret that only 
  C
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      
He's mad as he can be, but 
       C         C B   Am
Margaret only sees that sometimes,
              F              
Sometimes she sees her unborn 
 G               C
children in his eyes.


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       F                      Em
Let us go to the banks of the ocean
          F           G      
Where the walls rise above the 
         C
Zuider Zee.
     Dm A   G            C       
Long ago, I used to be a young 
 C B  Am
man
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         F          G             
And dear Margaret remembers that 
   C
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                                 
Sometimes he thinks he's still in 
C
Rotterdam.
C
And he watches the tug-boats down 
canals
An' calls out to them when he thinks
    Dm
 he knows the Captain.
     G
Till Margaret comes
            C
To take him home again
             Dm                 
Through unforgiving streets that 
 G         C C        C B       Am A
trip him, though she holds his arm,
             F           G        
Sometimes he thinks he's alone and
              C
 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                                 
Some tea with whiskey keeps away 
   C
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       
He hums a line or two, they sing 
           C C     C B    Am
together in      the    dark.
             F               
The Dutchman falls asleep and 
 G              C
Margaret blows the candle out.



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