John Gorka – The Dutchman (Guitar)

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The Dutchman's not the kind of man

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  Who keeps his thumb jammed in the dam

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  That holds his dreams in,

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  But that's a secret that only Margaret knows.

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When Amsterdam is golden in the summer,

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  Margaret brings him breakfast,

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  She believes him.

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  He thinks the tulips bloom beneath the snow.

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He's mad as he can be, but Margaret only sees that sometimes,

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Sometimes she sees her unborn children in his eyes.

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Let us go to the banks of the ocean

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Where the walls rise above the Zuider Zee.

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Long ago, I used to be a young man

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Now dear Margaret remembers that for me.

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The Dutchman still wears wooden shoes,

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His cap and coat are patched with the love

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  That Margaret sewed there.

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  Sometimes he thinks he's still in Rotterdam.

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He watches the tug-boats down canals

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  Calls out to them when he thinks he knows the Captain.

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  Till Margaret comes to take him home again

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Through unforgiving streets that trip him, though she holds his arm,

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Sometimes he thinks he's alone and he calls her name.

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Let us go to the banks of the ocean

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Where the walls rise above the Zuider Zee.

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Long ago, I used to be a young man

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Now dear Margaret remembers that for me.

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The windmills whirl the winter in

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  She winds his muffler tighter

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As they sit in the kitchen.

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  Some tea with whiskey keeps away the dew.

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He sees her for a moment, calls her name out,

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While she makes the bed up singing    some old love song,

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  A song Margaret learned when it was very new.

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He hums a line or two,   they sing together in the dark.

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The Dutchman falls asleep and Margaret blows the candle out.

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Let us go to the banks of the ocean

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Where the walls rise above the Zuider Zee.

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Long ago, I used to be a young man

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Now dear Margaret remembers that for me.

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Let us go to the banks of the ocean

          Dm          G               C    Am
Where the walls rise above the Zuider Zee.

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Long ago, I used to be a young man

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Now dear Margaret remembers that for me.

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Now dear Margaret remembers that for me.