
Date of issue: 31.12.1981
Record label: David Soul
Song language: English
The Dutchman |
The Dutchman’s not the kind of man |
To keep his thumb jammed in the dam |
That holds his dreams in, |
But that’s a secret that only Margaret knows. |
When Amsterdam is golden in the morning, |
Margaret brings him breakfast, |
She believes him. |
He thinks the tulips bloom beneath the snow. |
He’s mad as he can be, but Margaret only sees that sometimes, |
Sometimes she sees her unborn children in his eyes. |
Let us go to the banks of the ocean |
Where the walls rise above the Zuider Zee. |
Long ago, I used to be a young man |
But dear Margaret remembers that for me. |
The Dutchman still wears wooden shoes, |
His cap and coat are patched with the love |
That Margaret sewed there. |
Sometimes he thinks he’s still in Rotterdam. |
He watches the tug-boats down canals |
And calls out to them when he thinks he knows the Captain. |
Till Margaret comes |
To take him home again |
Through unforgiving streets that trip him, though she holds his arm, |
Sometimes he thinks he’s alone and he calls her name. |
Let us go to the banks of the ocean |
Where the walls rise above the Zuiderzee. |
Long ago, I used to be a young man |
But dear Margaret remembers that for me. |
The windmills whirl the winter in She winds his muffler tighter |
And they sit in the kitchen. |
Some tea with whiskey keeps away the dew. |
He sees her for a moment, calls her name, |
She makes his bed up singing some old love song, |
She learned it when the tune was very new. |
He hums a line or two, they hum together in the dark. |
The Dutchman falls asleep and Margaret blows the candle out. |
Let us go to the banks of the ocean |
Where the walls rise above the Zuiderzee. |
Long ago, I used to be a young man |
But dear Margaret remembers that for me. |
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