The Handsome Family – The Dutch Boy (Guitar)

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My heart it goes out to that 

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poor little Dutch boy 

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who stopped a great flood 

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with the tip of his thumb

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Through parades and medals 

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he felt no joy 

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and took to his bed 

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with a bottle of rum

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The queen she arrived 

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in her motorcade 

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to give the good Dutch boy

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a commemorative pen

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But he watched as the milkmaids 

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all withered and grayed 

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and he knew that the waters 

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must rise again

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Because the world is made up 

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of milk and scissors

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milk and scissors 

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in a spiraling chain

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Milk and scissors 

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like a cheap squirting flower

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milk and scissors 

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like worms when it rains