Chords:
{t: Dutchman, The }
{artist: Liam Clancy }
{key: C}
https://youtu.be/429PaSejZCE?t=75
{c: Most from Meisterdieb on https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com }
The [C] Dutchman's not the kind of man to keep his thumb jammed in the dam
That [Dm] holds his dreams in [Dm]
[G] But that's a secret that only [C] Margaret knows.
[C] When Amsterdam is golden,
In the morning Margaret brings him breakfast, [Dm]
She believes him. [G]
[G] He thinks the tulips bloom [C] beneath the snow.
He's mad as [Dm] he can be, but [G] Margaret only [C] sees that [G] sometimes,
[Am] Sometimes she [Dm] sees her unborn [G] children in his [C] eyes.
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Let us [Dm] go to the [G] banks of the [C] ocean [G] [Am]
[Dm] Where the walls rise a-[G]bove the Zuider [C] Zee. [G] [Am]
Long a-[Dm]go, I [G] used to be a [C] young man [G] [Am]
And dear [Dm] Margaret re-[G]members that for [C] me.
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[C] The Dutchman still wears wooden shoes, his cap and coat are patched with the love
That [Dm] Margaret sewed there. [Dm]
[G] Sometimes he thinks he's still in [C] Rotterdam.
He [C] watches the tug-boats down canals
An' calls out to them when he thinks he [Dm] knows the Captain. [Dm] [G]
Till Margaret comes to take him [C] home again
Through unfor-[Dm]giving streets that [G] trip him, though she [C] holds his arm, [G] [Am]
Sometimes he [Dm] thinks he's a-[G]lone and he calls her [C] name.
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Let us [Dm] go to the [G] banks of the [C] ocean [G] [Am]
[Dm] Where the walls rise a-[G]bove the Zuider [C] Zee. [G] [Am]
Long a-[Dm]go, I [G] used to be a [C] young man [G] [Am]
And dear [Dm] Margaret re-[G]members that for [C] me.
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Ohh the [C] windmills swirl the winter wind, she winds his muffler tighter
[Dm] they sit in the kitchen. [Dm]
[G] And a tea with whiskey keeps a-[C]way the dew. He sees her for a moment, calls her name,
She makes the bed up humming [Dm] some old [G] love song,
She learned it when the tune was [C] very new
He hums a [Dm] line or two, they [G] hum together in the [C] night. [G] [Am]
The Dutchman [Dm] falls asleep and [G] Margaret blows the [C] candle out.
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Let us [Dm] go to the [G] banks of the [C] ocean [G] [Am]
[Dm] Where the walls rise a-[G]bove the Zuider [C] Zee. [G] [Am]
Long a-[Dm]go, I [G] used to be a [C] young man [G] [Am]
And dear [Dm] Margaret re-[G]members that for [C] me.
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Let us [Dm] go to the [G] banks of the [C] ocean [G] [Am]
[Dm] Where the walls rise a-[G]bove the Zuider [C] Zee. [G] [Am]
Long a-[Dm]go, I [G] used to be a [C] young man [G] [Am]
And dear [Dm] Margaret re-[G]members that for [C] me.
