The Dutchman Uke tab by Liam Clancy

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The Dutchman's not the kind of man 
to keep his thumb jammed in the dam 
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That holds his dreams in, 
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But that's a secret that only Margaret knows. 
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When Amsterdam is golden, 
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Margaret brings him breakfast, 
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She believes him.   
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He thinks the tulips bloom beneath the snow. 
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He's mad as he can be, but Margaret only sees that sometimes,

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Sometimes she sees her unborn children in his eyes. 



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Let us go to the banks of the ocean
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Where the walls rise above the Zuider Zee. 
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Long ago, I used to be a young man 
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And dear Margaret remembers that from me. 

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The Dutchman still wears wooden shoes, 
His cap and coat are patched with the love 
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That Margaret sewed there.
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Sometimes he thinks he's still in Rotterdam. 
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He watches the tug-boats down canals  
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An' calls out to them when he thinks he knows the Captain. 
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Till Margaret comes To take him home again 
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Through unforgiving streets that trip him, though she holds his arm, 
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Sometimes he thinks he's alone and he calls her name. 

       Dm        G            C      G  Am
Let us go to the banks of the ocean
          Dm         G                C    G  Am
Where the walls rise above the Zuider Zee. 
     Dm     G            C          G  Am
Long ago, I used to be a young man 
         Dm       G                   C   
And dear Margaret remembers that from me. 

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Ohh the windmills swirl the winter wind
She winds his muffler tighter 
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they sit in the kitchen.
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And a tea with whiskey keeps away the dew. 
He sees her for a moment, calls her name,
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She makes the bed up singing some old love song, 
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She learned it when the tune was very new 
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He hums a line or two, they hum together in the night.
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The Dutchman falls asleep and Margaret blows the candle out. 


       Dm        G            C      G  Am
Let us go to the banks of the ocean
          Dm         G                C    G  Am
Where the walls rise above the Zuider Zee. 
     Dm     G            C          G  Am
Long ago, I used to be a young man 
         Dm       G                   C   
And dear Margaret remembers that from me. 

       Dm        G            C      G  Am
Let us go to the banks of the ocean
          Dm         G                C    G  Am
Where the walls rise above the Zuider Zee. 
     Dm     G            C          G  Am
Long ago, I used to be a young man 
         Dm       G                   C   
And dear Margaret remembers that from me.