Chords for The Dutchman Steve Goodman

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_ _ [G] _ [Bb] Time is money, money is time, [F] time is tape.
[G]
Stop tuning, alright, [Eb] alright.
Can't tune anyway, no sense trying.
Thanks for your patience with us here.
We got this last song here.
This is a ballad that Mike Smith made up
about two old people that live in Holland.
And I don't know how he did it,
because he's [Bb] never been there.
_ [C] _ Well, [F] _ _ [G] _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ [C] the Dutchman's not [Am] the kind of man
[C] that keeps his thumb [Am] jammed in the [Dm] dam
that holds his dreams in. _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ That's a secret [C] only Margaret knows.
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ When Amsterdam is [D] golden in the summer,
[Am] Margaret brings him [Dm] breakfast and she believes him.
_ _ _ [D] _ [G] He thinks the tulips [C] bloom beneath the snow.
[Dm] He's mad as he could [G] be,
but Margaret [C] only sees that [Am] sometimes.
Sometimes she sees her [G] unborn children [C] in his eyes.
_ Let us [F] go [D] to the banks of [Em] the ocean
[Gm] where [Dm] the walls [G] rise above the [C] _ Zuyderzee.
[Dm] Long ago [G]
I used to [C] be a young man
[Dm] and dear Margaret [G] [C] remembers that scene.
_ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ [C] The Dutchman [Am] still wears wooden [C] shoes.
His [Am] cap and coat are patched with [Dm] the love that Margaret sold there.
_ _ _ [Am] _
_ [G] _ Sometimes he thinks [C] he's still in Rotterdam.
[Am] _ _ _ _ [C] He watches [Am] tugboats down [Em] canals
and calls [Am] out to them when he [Dm] thinks he knows the cap.
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ Margaret comes to [C] take him home again
through the [Dm] unforgiving streets that trip him
[C] though she holds his eye.
[Am] _ [Dm] Sometimes he thinks he's [G] alone and [C] calls her name.
Let [Dm] us go to the banks [Em] of the ocean
_ [G] [Dm] where the walls [G] rise above the [C] Zuyderzee.
_ [Dm] Long ago I used to be [C] a young [G] man
[Am] [Dm] and dear Margaret [G]
remembers [C] that scene.
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[Gm] _ _ _ [Em] _ [G] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
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[C] _ _ [Dm] _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _
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[C] Now _ _ the winter [Am] whirls, the wind [C] mills round
and she [Am] winds his muffler tighter.
[Dm] They sit in the kitchen. _
[D] _ [G] _ _ Some tea with whiskey keeps [C] away the dew.
[Am] _ _ _ _ Then he sees her for a moment, [C] calls her name.
She [Am] makes the bed up [Dm] singing some old love song.
_ _ _ [Am] _ [G] _ She learned it when [C] the song was very new.
He [Dm] hums a line [G] or two.
[C] They hum together in the [Em] dark.
[Am] [Dm] The Dutchman falls [G] asleep.
Margaret [C] blows the candles out.
[Dm] Let us go to the [G] banks of the ocean
[Dm] where the walls [G] rise above the [C] [Am] Zuyderzee.
_ [Dm] Long ago [G]
I used to be a young [Am] man
[Dm] and dear Margaret [G]
remembers [C] that scene.
_ [Dm] Let us go to the banks [Em] of the ocean
[D] where the walls [G] rise above the [C] _ Zuyderzee.
[Dm] Long ago [G] I used to be a young [Am] man
[B] and dear Margaret [F] remembers that _ scene. _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ [G] _
_ [Am] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _
_ Thank you, Gretchen.
_ Good night, everybody.