Chords for "The Dutchman" By: Michael Peter Smith 1997

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_ _ _ _ Ladies and gentlemen, would you please welcome Michael [Am] Smith.
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_ _ _ _ The Dutchman's not the kind of man.
[G] His thumb [C] jammed in the dam [Dm] that holds his dreams in. _ _
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But that's a secret [Cm] only Margaret knows.
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[C] Spend hours golden in the morning, Margaret waits.
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_ _ She believes in _ _ the [G] water.
He thinks to himself _ [C]
beneath the sun.
_ He's [F] amazed to be [G] _ Margaret [E] only sees red sometimes.
Sometimes [F] she sees her [G] own orange.
[C] It is I.
[Em] _ _ Let [A] us go to the banks of the ocean.
[Em] _ _ Where [F] the water's [A] rising up.
Where is he?
_ _ _ [Dm] Long ago [G] I used to be [C] a young [G] man.
_ [E] _ [Dm] And dear Margaret [G] remembers that.
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The Dutchman still wears wooden shoes.
His cap and coat of passionate love.
[F] The heart beats [Dm] so. _ _ _
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Sometimes he thinks he's still in [C] Bottom Dam.
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_ _ _ [C] He watches stuff falls down canals.
Calls out to them when he thinks [A] he knows the cat. _ _ _ _
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Till Margaret comes to take him [C] home again.
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_ [G] The trip him though [E] she holds his arm.
_ Sometimes he [Dm] thinks he's [G] alone and he calls his [F] name.
[Em] _ _ [C] _ Let [Am] us go to the banks of [Em] the ocean.
_ _ Where [F] the water's [A] rising up.
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ago [G] I used to be [Em] a young man.
_ [Am] And [F] dear Margaret [G] remembers that.
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The windmill whirls the winter and she winds his buffalo tight.
[C] They [A] sit in the [Dm] kitchen. _ _ _ _
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Some tea with whiskey keeps [C] away the dew.
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_ _ _ [C] _ He seeks her for [G] a moment.
[Am] Calls her name as she makes the bed.
[G] _ [F] Humming some old love song. _
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She learned that when the mill [C]
was very new.
He feeds her [F] lanterns.
_ _ [G] They [Em] hunt together in the night.
The [G] Dutchman [Dm] falls asleep [G] and Margaret blows the [F] candle out.
_ [C] _ Let [D] us go [Am] to the banks of [Bm] the ocean.
_ _ Where the [C] _ [D] water's rising [C] up.
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Long [F] ago I used [Dm] to be a [Em] young [A] man. _ _
And dear Margaret [G] remembers that.
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Let us [Dm] go to the [G] banks of [G] the ocean. _ _ _
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