Chords for Steve Goodman - The Dutchman

[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
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[C] The Dutchman's not the [Am] kind of man who keeps his thumb jammed in the dam that [F] holds his dreams in
_ _ That's _ [Bm] _ _ _
[C] _ [G] _ _ _ a secret [C] only Margaret knows
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When _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ Amsterdam [Am] is golden in [C] the summer
[Am] Margaret brings [C] him [Dm] breakfast
_ She [F] believes him
_ He _ _ [F#] _ _ _
[C] _ [G] _ _ _ thinks tulips [C] bloom beneath the snow
_ He's mad [F] as he [Am] could be
[G] Margaret only [C] sees that _ [Am] sometimes _
Sometimes [Dm] she sees her unborn [G] _ [Em] children [C] in his eyes _ _ _
Let [D] us go to the banks [Em] of the ocean _ _
Where [Dm] the walls [G] rise above the [C] _ _ _ _ Zuyderzee _ _
Long [Dm] ago, _ [G] I used to [Cm] be a young _ [Am] man _ _
_ [Dm] Dear Margaret, [G] remember _ [C] that me
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[C] _ _ _ The Dutchman [Am] still wears wooden [C] [B] shoes [Am] and his cap and coat are patched with [Dm] the love
Margaret [F] sewed there
_ _ Sometimes _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ he thinks he's [C] still in Rotterdam
_ [Am] _
He _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ watches _ [Am] tugboats down canals [C] and calls out to [Am] them when [C] he thinks he [Dm] knows the [F] captain
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_ [G] _ _ _ Margaret comes to [C] take him home again
Through the [Dm] _ unforgiving [G] streets to trip him [C] though she holds his [Am] eye _ _
[Dm] Sometimes he thinks he's [G] alone.
He [C] calls her name _ _ _
[D] Let us go to the banks [Em] of the _ ocean _ _
[C] Where [D] the walls [G] rise above the _ [C] _ _ Zuyderzee _ _
_ [Dm] Long ago, _ [G] I used [C] to be a young man
[Am] _ _
[Dm] And dear Margaret [G] _ _
remembers [C] that _ me _ _ _
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_ _ The _ _ _ winter world the [Am] windmills round _ _
She winds muffler tighter
[Dm] _
_ They sit in the kitchen _ _
_ Something [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ _ with whiskey keeps [C] away the dew
_ [Am] _ He _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] sees her for a [Am] moment.
He [C] calls her name and she makes the [Am] bed up
singing [Dm]
some old love song
_ She _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ learned it when the song [C] was very new
_ _ He [Dm] hums the line
_ [G] They [C] hum together in the [Am] dark
_ The [Dm] Dutchman falls asleep
[G] _ Margaret [C] blows the candles down
_ _ [D] Let us go to the banks [Bm] of the [Em] ocean
_ _ Where [D]
the walls rise [G] above the _ _
[C] _ Zuyderzee
_ _ _ Long [Dm] ago, _ [G] I used to [C] be a young [Bm] man
[Am] _ _ And [Dm] dear Margaret _ [G] _ remembers _
[C] that me
_ _ _ Let [D] us go to the banks [Bm] of the ocean _ _ _
[D] Where the walls [G] rise above the _
[C] _ Zuyderzee _ _ _ _
Long [Dm] ago, _ [G] I used to be [C] a young man
[Am] _ _
And [Dm] dear Margaret _ [G] _ remembers [C] that [F] me _ _ _ _ _ _
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