Chords for The Dutchman-Makem & Clancy 7/10

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I think it's all about an old couple.
Probably my favorite couple, old Margaret and her husband. _ _ _
They _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Em] know what love is all about because they've seen the hard times as well as the good times.
_ [B] The old Dutchman is a bit shell-shocked in this song.
I think he's shell-shocked.
The song just says he might be a little bit mad.
_ _ But I think that he's shell-shocked because it's just after the war
and the song takes place one day in their lives from early morning until late at night.
The thing I love about Margaret is that _ _
I love the way she puts the little drop of whiskey in his tea to warm him up and cheer [C] him on.
_ _ To me that's the [G] essence of a love song right there.
_ _ [C] _
The _ [Em] _ _ chorus, if you want to sing it nice and soft,
_ is straight out of one of the old man's mad reveries where he kind of goes back to his youth.
He says, let us go to the banks of the ocean _ where the [F#] walls rise [G] above the Zyder Zee.
_ _ Long ago I used to be a young man. _
Dear Margaret remembers that for me.
The Dutchman.
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] The _ Dutchman's not the kind of man
to keep his thumb jammed in the dam [Dm] that holds _ his dreams in.
_ But _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ that's a secret [C] only Margaret knows.
_ _ _ _ When Amsterdam is golden in the morning, Margaret brings him [G] the best.
[Dm] _ _ She believes him. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ He thinks the tulips bloom [C] beneath the snow. _ _ _
_ He's [Dm] mad as he can be, [G] but Margaret [C] only sees [Em] that [Am] sometimes.
_ [Dm] Sometimes she sees her [G] unborn children [C] in his _ eye. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Let us [Dm] go to [G] the banks [C] of the ocean [Em] _ [Am] _ _ where the [D] walls [G] rise above the [C] Zyder _ _ _ [Am] _ Zee.
[Dm] Long ago _ [G] I used to be [C] a young [Em] [Am] man.
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _
Dear Margaret [G] _ remembers that [C] for me. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ The Dutchman still wears wooden shoes.
His cap and coat are patched with love [Dm] that _ Margaret sold him. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ Sometimes he thinks he's still [C] in _ Rotterdam. _
_ _ _ He watches tugboats down canals and calls out to them.
When he [Dm] thinks he _ knows the captain, _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ till Margaret comes to take him [C] home again. _ _ _
_ Through [Dm] unforgiving streets [G] that trip him, [C] though she holds his arm.
[Am] _
_ Sometimes [Dm] he thinks that [G] he's alone and he calls [C] her name. _ _
Let _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] us go [G] to the banks [C] of the [Em] ocean _ [Am] _ where [D] the [G] walls rise above [C] the Zyder _ _ [Am] Zee.
_ _ [Dm] Long ago [G] I used to [C] be a [Em] young [Am] man.
_ _ [Dm] And dear Margaret [G] _ remembers that _ [C] _
for me. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Oh, the _ windmills swirl the winter in.
She winds his muffler tighter.
_ [Dm] _ They sit in the kitchen. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ And the tea with whiskey _ [C] keeps away the dew. _
_ _ _ _ He sees her for a moment, _ calls her name.
She makes his bed up, [G] [Dm] humming some _ more love song. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ She learned it when the tune _ [C] was very _ new.
_ _ He [Dm] hums a line or two.
[G] They hum together [C] in the [G] night. _
[Am] _ The [Dm] Dutchman falls asleep [G]
and Margaret [C] blows the candle out. _
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Let us [Dm] go [G] to the banks [C] of the [Em] ocean _ [Am]
where _ the [G] walls rise above the [C] Zyder _ _ _ [Am]
Zee.
_ [Dm] Long ago _ [G] I used to [C] be a young _ [Am] man.
_ And [Dm] dear Margaret _ [G] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ remembers that for me.
Let us [Dm] go [G] to the banks [F] of [C] the [Em] ocean _ [Am] _
_ _ [Dm] where the walls [G] rise _ above the [C] Zyder _ _ [Am] Zee.
_ _ [Dm] Long ago _ [G] I used to be [C] a young man.
[Am] _
_ And [Dm] dear Margaret remembers that for me.
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