The Dutchman chords

The Dutchman

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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. 
 

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. 

  
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.  
   
  
Chorus  
  
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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