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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:19:03 -0500
 From: "Clifton K. Prince" 
 Subject: CRD: w/walker_jerry_jeff/dutchman.crd
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    The Dutchman by Michael Peter Smith
    as performed by Jerry Jeff Walker on "Hill Country Rain"
    Standard E tuning. Capo at 3rd fret.
 
 ---Intro--------------------------------------------------------------
 
    ||:  G  GM7  G6  GM7  :||
 
 ---Verse 1------------------------------------------------------------
 
        G                   GM7
    The Dutchman is not the kind of man
 
       G6                    GM7           Am
    to keep his thumb jambed in a dam that holds his dreams in.
 
        D                             G       Em
    But that's a secret only Margaret knows.  |
 
         G            GM7
    When Amsterdam is golden
 
           G6               GM7                   Am
    in the morning Margaret brings him breakfast. She believes him.
 
       D                                   G      Em
    He thinks the tulips bloom beneath the snow.  |
 
                Am             D             Bm
    He's mad as he can be, but Margaret only sees that sometimes.
 
                  Am              D7              G      G7
    Sometimes she sees her unborn children in his eyes.  |
 
 ---Chorus-------------------------------------------------------------
 
           C         D            Bm
    Let us go to the banks of the ocean,
 
              C            D               Em
    where the walls rise a-bove the Zuider Zee.
 
           C     D            Bm
    Long a-go, I used to be a young man.
 
             C           D7               G    GM7  G6  GM7  G ...
    Now dear Margaret re-members that for me.               [Intro]
 
 ---Verse 2------------------------------------------------------------
 
    The Dutchman still wears wooden shoes.
    His hat and coat are patched with the love that Margaret sewed him.
    Sometimes he thinks he's still in Rotterdam.
    He watches tugboats down canals
    and calls out to them when he thinks he knows the captain,
    'til Margaret comes to take him home again,
    through unforgiving streets that trip him though he holds her arm.
    Sometimes he thinks that he's alone and calls her name. [Chorus]
 
 ---Verse 3------------------------------------------------------------
 
    The windmills whirl the winter wind.
    She winds his muffler tighter. They sit in the kitchen.
    Some tea with whiskey keeps away the dew.
    He sees her for a moment. He calls
    her name out. She makes the bed up, humming some old love song.
    She learned the tune when it was very new.
    He hums a line or two. They hum together in the dark.
    The Dutchman falls asleep & Margaret blows the candle out.[Chorus]
 
 ---Summary------------------------------------------------------------
 
    Intro:  ||:  G    GM7  G6   GM7  :||
    Verses: ||:  G    GM7  G6   GM7  Am   /    D    /    G    Em  :||
                 Am   D    Bm   /    Am   D7   G    G7
    Chorus:      C    D    Bm   /    C    D    Em   /
                 C    D    Bm   /    C    D7   G    (to Intro)
 
 ---Notes--------------------------------------------------------------
 
    some easy open chords:
 
              EADgbe
    ------------------
        Am    002210
        Bm    xx4432
        C     032010
        D     x00232
        D7    x00212
        D7    x30232
        Em    022000
        Em7   020000
        G     320003
        G6    320000  aka G + e in soprano; or simply use Em7
        G7    320001
        GM7   320002
 
    In this arrangement, the gentle soprano melody do - ti - la - ti
    plays on the upper e-string in the G - GM7 - G6 - GM7 sequence
    throughout the piece, and can easily be plucked between strums.
 
    "Hill Country Rain", Ryko disc RCD 10241, is an awesome album from
    an awesome performer who has never lost his integrity - instead, he
    generally chose to lose either his wife or his sobriety.
 
    Anther version of this song in C is available at
    olga.../s/smith_michael_peter/the_dutchman.crd, submitted by Denny
    Straussfogel. My arrangement puts the piece in G (with the chorus
    in C) and then capo's it up to B-flat major, to match Jerry Jeff.
 
    Transcribed and submitted by Cliff Prince.
    cprince@chass.utoronto.ca