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Tabbed by: Mike Nachaj :: mike@mikemusicbox.com

Song: The Dutchman
By:   Steve Goodman

[intro:]  C

[verse: 1]
       C
The Dutchman's not the kind of man

Who keeps his thumb jammed in the dam 
      Dm                   
That holds his dreams in 
G                                    C
    But that's a secret that only Margaret knows
         C
When Amsterdam is golden in the summer 
                              
Margaret brings him breakfast
Dm                  
She believes in 
G                                C
   He thinks the tulips bloom beneath the snow
            Dm                G                C    C/B Am
He's mad as he can be, but Margaret only sees that sometimes
          Dm                     G              C       
Sometimes she sees her unborn children in his eyes

[chorus:]
       Dm                      C     
Let us go to the banks of the ocean
           Dm          G               C   
Where the walls rise above the Zuider Zee 
     Dm     G             C  C/B Am
Long ago, I used to be a young man 
            Dm       G                C   
And dear Margaret remembers that from me 

C C 

[verse: 2]
C
The Dutchman still wears wooden shoes
 
His cap and coat are patched with the love 
        Dm
That Margaret sewed there
G                                       C
   Sometimes he thinks he's still in Rotterdam
     C
He watches the tug-boats down canals  
                                         Dm                       
And calls out to them when he thinks he knows the Captain
G                                   C
   Till Margaret comes To take him home again 
            Dm                    G                     C  C/B Am
Through unforgiving streets that trip him, though she holds his arm
             Dm          G                      C
Sometimes he thinks he's alone and he calls her name

[chorus:]
       Dm                      C     
Let us go to the banks of the ocean
           Dm          G               C   
Where the walls rise above the Zuider Zee 
     Dm     G             C  C/B Am
Long ago, I used to be a young man 
            Dm       G                C   
And dear Margaret remembers that from me 

C  C/B Am   C  Dm

[verse: 3]
       C
The winter's wirll the windmills round

She winds his muffler tighter 
Dm
And they sit in the kitchen
G                               C
  Some tea with whiskey keeps away the dew

And he sees her for a moment, calls her name
                        Dm                 
She makes the bed up singing some old love song
G                                       C
  A song Margaret learned when it was very new 
           Dm          G              C    C/B  Am
He hums a line or two,   they sing together in the dark
              Dm               G                  C
The Dutchman falls asleep and Margaret blows the candle out

[coda:]
       Dm                      C     
Let us go to the banks of the ocean
           Dm          G               C   
Where the walls rise above the Zuider Zee 
     Dm     G             C  C/B Am
Long ago, I used to be a young man 
            Dm       G                C   
And dear Margaret remembers that from me  



chords:

Am      002210
Am/B    x22010    B bass
C       032010
Dm      000231
G       320003