Irish Songs With Easy Chords & Lyrics
The Dutchman
| G |
| 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 |
| Em | Am | D |
| 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:
| Em | Am | D | Em |
| Let us | go to the | banks | of the | ocean |
| Am | D | G |
| Where the | walls rise a | bove the Zuider | zee |
| Em | Am | D | G |
| Long a | go, I | used to | be a | young man |
| Em | Am | D | G |
| 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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