Chords for Steve Goodman - The Dutchman - 4/18/1976 - Capitol Theatre (Official)

This next one here is Mike's best tune, probably.
[C] He wrote this about a couple of old people that live in [Am] Holland.
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_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [A] _ _ [F] _
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The Dutchman's not the kind of man who [B] keeps his thumb [Am] jammed in the dam that holds his dreams in.
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That's a secret [C] only Margaret knows.
When Amsterdam [Am] is golden in the summer, Margaret brings him breakfast and she believes him.
[F] _ _ _ [G] He thinks tulips [C] bloom beneath the snow.
He's mad as he could [G] be, but Margaret [C] only sees that [Am] sometimes.
Sometimes [Dm] she sees her unborn [A] children in his [C] eyes.
Let us [Dm] go to the [Am] banks of the [E] ocean, _ [Em] _ where [F] the walls rise above the [Am] Zuiderzee.
_ Long ago [Bm] I used to be [Am] a young man, and [A] dear Margaret [G]
remembers that [C] for me. _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
The Dutchman still wears wooden [E] shoes, and his [F] cap and coat are patched [Dm] with the love that Margaret sewed there.
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[D] Sometimes he thinks he's still in Rotterdam.
[Am] _ _ _
_ [C] _ [Am] He watches tugboats down canals and calls out to them [Dm] when he thinks he knows the captain. _ _ _
_ [G] Margaret comes to take [C] him home again, through unforgiving [D] streets that trip him [C] though she holds his [Am] arm.
[A] Sometimes he thinks he's alone and he [C] calls her name.
Let [F] us go to the banks of [Em] the ocean, [Am] where the walls rise above the [C] Zuiderzee.
[Am] _ Long ago [G] I used to be a young [Am] man, and dear Margaret [Bm]
remembers [C] that for me. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [F] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [A] _ _
[Am] The winter whirls the windmills round and she winds his muffler tighter.
[Am] They sit in the kitchen.
_ [G]
Some tea with whiskey keeps [C] away the dew.
[Am] _ _ _
_ _ He sees her for a moment and he calls her name and she makes the [Dm] bed up, singing some old [Am] love song.
[G] Margaret learned that [C] song when it was very new.
He hums a line [A] or two and they sing [Am] together in the dark.
Then the Dutchman falls [G] asleep and Margaret blows [C] the candles [Am] out. _ _
_ Let us go to the banks of [E] the ocean, _
[Em] [Dm] where the walls [G] rise above the [C] Zuiderzee.
[Am]
Long [A] ago I [G] used to be a young man, and dear Margaret remembers [C] that for me. _ _
Would you sing that?
_ _ Let us [F] go to the banks [Em] of the ocean, _ [Am] where the walls [G] rise above the [C] _ [Am] Zuiderzee.
[Dm] Long ago [G] I used to [Am] be a young man, and dear Margaret [G] remembers [C] that for me.
Just once now.
[Am] Let us go to the banks [Em] of the ocean, [Am] where the walls [Bm] rise above [C] the [Am] Zuiderzee.
Long ago [G] I used to [C] be a young [Am] man, and [F] dear Margaret [Em] remembers that [F] for me. _ _ _
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_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ Mike [N] Smith wrote those two songs, huh?
Thank you for singing. _ _ _ _ _ _
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