The Dutchman-John McDermott

[ti:The Dutchman] [ar:John McDermott] [al:Old Friends] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.65]The Dutchman - John McDermott [00:01.92]Written by：M.P. Smith [00:02.71] [00:08.43]The Dutchman's not the kind of man [00:10.30] [00:11.29]To keep his thumb jammed in the dam [00:14.46]That holds his dreams in [00:17.67] [00:22.37]But that's a secret only Margaret knows [00:28.16] [00:29.60]When Amsterdam is golden in the morning [00:34.25]Margaret brings him breakfast [00:36.13] [00:37.43]She believes him [00:39.66] [00:44.40]He thinks the tulips bloom [00:47.10]Beneath the snows [00:50.00] [00:50.60]He's mad as he can be [00:52.68] [00:53.22]But Margaret only sees that sometimes [00:56.90] [00:57.87]Sometimes she sees her unborn children [01:01.25] [01:02.47]In his eyes [01:06.21] [01:08.43]Let us go to the banks of the ocean [01:15.41] [01:16.39]Where the walls rise above the Zuiderzee [01:22.53] [01:23.46]Long ago I used to be a young man [01:29.63] [01:30.67]And dear Margaret remembers a away [01:37.48] [01:42.84]The Dutchman still wears wooden shoes [01:45.35] [01:46.11]His cap and his coat are patched with love [01:49.16]That Margaret sewed in [01:53.47] [01:57.21]Sometimes he thinks he's still in Rotterdam [02:02.60] [02:04.34]He watches tug boats down canals [02:07.52] [02:08.29]And calls out to them [02:09.74] [02:10.29]When he thinks he knows the captain [02:14.98] [02:19.51]'Til Margaret comes to take him home again [02:24.13] [02:25.65]Through unforgiving streets [02:28.32]A tripping though she holds his arm [02:32.02] [02:33.04]Sometimes he thinks that he's alone [02:36.49] [02:37.53]And calls her name [02:40.37] [02:44.05]Let us go to the banks of the ocean [02:50.91] [02:52.04]Where the walls rise above the Zuiderzee [02:58.38] [02:59.28]Long ago I used to be a young man [03:05.50] [03:06.57]And dear Margaret remembers that away [03:13.42] [03:22.72]The windmills swirl The winter air [03:24.64] [03:25.97]She winds his muffler tighter [03:27.89] [03:28.96]They sit in the kitchen [03:32.42] [03:36.83]And the tea with wiskey keep away the dew [03:42.60] [03:44.32]He sees her for a moment calls her name [03:48.72]She makes his bed up [03:50.23] [03:51.08]Humming some old love song [03:56.79] [03:59.68]She learned it when the tune was vey new [04:05.83] [04:06.67]He hums a line or two they hum together in the night [04:12.21] [04:13.84]The Dutchman falls asleep [04:15.68] [04:16.22]And Margaret blows the candle out [04:21.66] [04:25.17]Let us go to the banks of the ocean [04:33.03] [04:34.09]Where the walls rise above the Zuiderzee [04:40.43] [04:41.35]Long ago I used to be a young man [04:47.71] [04:48.64]And dear Margaret remembers that away [04:54.83] [04:56.05]Let us go to the banks of the ocean [05:02.12] [05:03.25]Where the walls rise above the Zuiderzee [05:09.62] [05:10.65]Long ago I used to be a young man [05:16.90] [05:17.98]And dear Margaret remembers that away