The Dutchman Chords by Steve Goodman

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[C] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
[C] Dutchman's [Am] not the kind of man
Who keeps his thumb jammed in the dam
But [F] holds his dreams in _ _ _ _
[G] _ That's a secret [C] only Margaret [Am] knows
_ _ [C] _ When Amsterdam [Am] is golden [B] in the summer
Margaret brings him [Dm] breakfast
[F] She believes him
_ _ [F#] _ _ [G] He thinks to lips [C] blue beneath the snow
He's [F] mad as he could be
[G] Margaret only sees that [Am] sometimes
[Dm] Sometimes she sees her unborn children [C] in his eyes
_ [D] Let us go to the banks of the [Em] ocean
_ [Dm] Where the walls [G] rise above the [C] _ Zuyderzee
[Dm] Long ago [G] I used to be a young [Am] man
Dear Margaret [Bm] remembers [C] that's me
_ [Am] _ _ _ [C] _ _
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[C] The Dutchman still wears wooden [B] shoes
And [Am] his cap and coat are patched with the [Dm] love
Margaret [F] sewed there _ _ _ _
[G] _ Sometimes he thinks he's [C] still in Rotterdam
[Am] _ _
_ _ _ [C] He watches [Am] tugboats down [C] canals and calls out [Am] to them
When he [Dm] thinks he knows the [F] captain
_ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ Margaret comes to take [C] him home again
Through the [Dm] unforgiving [G] streets to trip him
[C] Though she holds his [Am] arm
[Dm] Sometimes he thinks he's [G] alone
He [C] calls her name
_ Let us [Dm] go to the banks of the [Em] ocean
[D] Where the walls rise above the [C] Zuyderzee
_ [Dm] Long ago [G] I used to [C] be a young [Am] man
[Dm] And dear Margaret [G] remembers [C] that's me
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[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ The winter whirls the [C] windmills round
She winds muffler [Dm] tighter
They sit in the kitchen
_ _ [F#] _ _ [G] Some tea with whiskey keeps [C] away the dew
[Am] _ _ _ _
_ [C] He sees her for a [Am] moment
He [C] calls her name
She [Am] makes the bed up
[Dm] Singing some old love song
She _
_ _ [G] _ learned it when the song [C] was very new
He [Dm] hums a line or [G] two
They [C] hum together in the [Am] dark
The [Dm] Dutchman falls [G] asleep
Margaret [C] blows the candles
_ [D] Let us go to the [Bm] banks of the [Em] ocean
[D] Where the walls [G] rise above the [C] Zuyderzee
_ [D] Long ago I used to [G] be a young [Am] man
[Dm] And dear Margaret remembers [C] that's me
Let [D] us go to the banks [Bm] of the ocean
[D] Where the walls rise above [C] the Zuyderzee
_ [Dm] Long ago I [G] used to be a young man
[Am] And [Dm] dear Margaret [Bm] remembers [F] that's me
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_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
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