Irish Songs With Easy Chords & Lyrics
The Dutchman
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The Dutchman's not the kind of man |
Who keeps his thumb jammed in the dam
| Am |
That | holds his dreams in |
| D | G |
But | that's a secret that only | Margaret knows |
When Amsterdam is golden in the summer
Margaret brings him breakfast
D | G |
He thinks the tulips bloom be | neath the snow |
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He`s mad as | he can | be but | Margaret |
| G |
only | sees that sometimes |
| Em | Am | D | G |
Some | times she | sees her unborn | children in his | eyes |
CHO:
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Let us | go to the | banks | of the | ocean |
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Where the | walls rise a | bove the Zuider | zee |
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Long a | go, I | used to | be a | young man |
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And dear | Mar | garet re | members that for | me |
The Dutchman still wears wooden shoes
His cap and coat are patched with the love
| there |
That Margaret sewed in | |
Sometimes he thinks he's still in Rotterdam
| the |
He watches | tug boats down canals |
And calls out to them when he thinks he knows the Captain
| Then |
'Til | Margaret comes to take him home again |
Through unforgiving streets
That trick him though she holds his arm
Sometimes he thinks that he's alone and calls her name
The windmills whirl the winter in
The winters whirl the windmills 'round |
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She winds his muffler tighter,
They sit in the kitchen
Some tea with whiskey keeps away the dew
He sees her for a moment, calls her name
| singing |
She makes the bed up humming | some old love song |
A song Margaret learned when the tune it was very new
| dark |
He hums a line or two, they hum sing together in the night | |
The Dutchman falls asleep and Margaret blows the candle out.
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