The Dutchman-Cashman & West

[ti:The Dutchman] [ar:Cashman & West] [al:The Am-Fm Blues (Their Very Best)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Dutchman - Cashman & West [00:16.39]The Dutchman's not the kind of man [00:19.22]To keeps his thumb jammed in the dam [00:21.95]That holds his dreams in [00:23.87] [00:27.81]But that's a secret that only Margaret knows [00:30.48] [00:32.23]When Amsterdam is golden in the summer [00:35.98]Margaret brings him breakfast she believes him [00:41.92] [00:43.60]He thinks the tulips bloom beneath the snow [00:47.06]He's mad as he can be [00:49.35]But Margaret only sees that sometimes [00:52.32] [00:53.03]Sometimes she sees [00:54.39]Her unborn children in his eyes [00:58.22]Let us go to the banks of the ocean [01:02.59] [01:03.48]Where the walls rise above the Zuiderzee [01:07.93] [01:08.72]Long ago I used to be a young man [01:13.46] [01:15.32]Margaret remembers that for me [01:20.36] [01:28.20]The Dutchman still wears wooden shoes [01:31.23]His cap and coat are patched with the love [01:33.85]That Margaret sewed him [01:35.86] [01:39.22]Sometimes he thinks he's still in Rotterdam [01:44.09]He watches tug-boats down canals [01:47.04]And calls out to them [01:48.26]When he thinks he knows the captain [01:52.43] [01:55.34]And Margaret comes to take him home again [01:58.92] [01:59.54]Through the unforgiving streets that trip him [02:03.25]Though she holds his arm [02:04.77]Sometimes he thinks he's alone calls her name [02:08.95] [02:10.11]Let us go to the banks of the ocean [02:14.44] [02:15.45]Where the walls rise above the Zuiderzee [02:19.52] [02:20.64]Long ago I used to be a young man [02:25.60] [02:26.93]Margaret remembers that for me [02:30.90] [02:45.89]Windmills whirl the winter inwind [02:49.18]She winds his muffler tighter they sit in the kitchen [02:54.84] [02:56.99]Some tea with whiskey keeps away the dew [03:00.90] [03:01.46]He sees her for a moment calls her name [03:05.61]She makes his bed up singing some old love song [03:11.67] [03:13.00]She learned it when the tune was very new [03:16.30] [03:17.01]He hums a line or two [03:19.55]They sing together in the dark [03:22.58]The Dutchman falls asleep [03:24.46] [03:25.06]And Margaret blows the candle out [03:27.37] [03:28.05]Let us go to the banks of the ocean [03:32.40] [03:33.42]Where the walls rise above the Zuiderzee [03:37.95] [03:38.59]Long ago I used to be a young man [03:43.22] [03:45.26]Margaret remembers that for me [03:48.41] [03:49.32]Let us go to the banks of the ocean [03:54.09] [03:55.05]Where the walls rise above the Zuiderzee [03:59.41] [03:59.98]Long ago I used to be a young man [04:04.75] [04:06.74]Margaret remembers that for me