Chords for Keith Harkin - The Dutchman

_ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ [E] _ _
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_ _ _ [C#m] _ Well, a Dutchman's not the kind of man [G#m] to keep his thumb jammed in the [F#m] dam that holds his dreams in _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ But that's a secret [E] only Margaret knows _ _ _ _ _ _
_ When Amsterdam is golden in [G#m] the morning [C#m] Margaret brings him breakfast
[F#m] _ She believes him
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _
He thinks a tulip's bloom beneath the snow _
He's mad [F#m] as he can be [G#m] but Margaret only sees that [C#m] sometimes
Sometimes [F#m] she sees her [B] unborn children in [A] his eyes
_ [E] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ Let [F#m] us go to [B] the banks [E] of the ocean
_ [C#m] _ _ [F#m] Where the walls [B] rise above the [E] cider's heat _ _
Long [F#m] ago.
_ [B] I used to be [E] a young man
_ [F#m] But dear Margaret
[B] _
Remembers that for me
_ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [C#m] Well, the Dutchman still wears wooden shoes his cap and [C#m] coat are patched, patched with the [F#m] love that Margaret's sold him _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ Sometimes he thinks he's still [E] in Rotterdam
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
He watches tugboats down canals [E] and calls out [C#m] to them when he thinks he [F#m] knows the captain
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B]
Till Margaret comes to take [E] him home again _
Through the [A] unforgiving streets [G#m] that trip him though [E] she holds his [C#m] arm
_ [F#m] Sometimes he thinks [B] he's alone [A] calls her name
[E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Let [F#m] us go to [B] the banks of the [E] ocean
_ _ [C#m] _
[F#m] Where the walls rise [B] above the [E] cider's heat
_ _ Long [F#m] ago.
[B] I used to [E] be a young man
_ But dear Margaret
[B] _ Remembers [E] that for me _ _
_ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
Well the windmills whirl winter and [G#m] she winds [C#m] his muffler tighter [F#m] they sit in
the kitchen
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B]
Some tea with whiskey keeps [E] away the dew _ _
_ _ _ _ _ He sees her [C#m] for a moment [G#m] calls her name.
She makes his bed up [F#m] singing some
old love song _
_ _ _ _ [B] She learned when the tune [E] was very new
_ He hums [F#m] a line or [B] two they hum [E] together in the night
[C#m]
The [F#m] Dutchman falls [B] asleep and Margaret [A] blows the _ [E] candlelight
_ [F#m] _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ Let [F#m] us go to [B] the banks [E] of the ocean
[C#m] _ _ [F#m] Where the walls rise above the [E] cider's heat _
_ Long [F#m] ago.
[B] I used to [E] be a young man
_ [C#m] But dear [F#m] Margaret [B] _ remembers that _ for [E] me
_ [A] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [E] _
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