[00:06.96]The Dutchman's not the kind of man
[00:09.84]to keep his thumb jammed in the dam
[00:13.03]That holds his dreams in,
[00:16.32]
[00:20.01]But that's a secret that only Margaret knows.
[00:23.84]
[00:25.20]When Amsterdam is golden in the morning,
[00:29.24]Margaret brings him breakfast,
[00:31.43]
[00:32.17]She believes him.
[00:35.36]
[00:38.52]He thinks the tulips bloom beneath the snow.
[00:41.76]
[00:42.82]He's mad as he can be, but Margaret only sees that sometimes,
[00:48.38]
[00:48.94]Sometimes she sees her unborn children in his eyes.
[00:54.37]
[00:58.80]Let us go to the banks of the ocean
[01:04.04]
[01:05.40]Where the walls rise above the Zuider Zee.
[01:10.46]
[01:11.21]Long ago, I used to be a young man
[01:16.22]
[01:17.34]But dear Margaret remembers that for me.
[01:23.20]
[01:27.45]The Dutchman still wears wooden shoes,
[01:30.20]His cap and coat are patched with the love
[01:33.12]That Margaret sewed there.
[01:36.50]
[01:39.86]Sometimes he thinks he's still in Rotterdam.
[01:44.17]
[01:45.42]He watches the tug-boats down canals
[01:48.60]And calls out to them when he thinks he knows the Captain.
[01:55.30]
[01:58.48]Till Margaret comes
[01:59.88]To take him home again
[02:02.38]
[02:03.19]Through unforgiving streets that trip him, though she holds his arm,
[02:08.62]
[02:09.43]Sometimes he thinks he's alone and he calls her name.
[02:15.17]
[02:19.16]Let us go to the banks of the ocean
[02:25.18]
[02:25.81]Where the walls rise above the Zuiderzee.
[02:30.55]
[02:31.61]Long ago, I used to be a young man
[02:36.60]
[02:37.41]But dear Margaret remembers that for me.
[02:42.47]
[02:47.77]The windmills whirl the winter in
[02:50.64]She winds his muffler tighter
[02:52.77]And they sit in the kitchen.
[02:56.83]
[03:00.32]Some tea with whiskey keeps away the dew.
[03:04.13]
[03:05.75]He sees her for a moment, calls her name,
[03:09.85]She makes his bed up singing some old love song,
[03:14.97]
[03:18.71]She learned it when the tune was very new.
[03:22.71]
[03:23.58]He hums a line or two, they hum together in the dark.
[03:28.82]
[03:29.88]The Dutchman falls asleep and Margaret blows the candle out.
[03:35.38]
[03:41.50]Let us go to the banks of the ocean
[03:46.24]
[03:47.92]Where the walls rise above the Zuiderzee.
[03:52.48]
[03:54.04]Long ago, I used to be a young man
[03:59.22]
[04:00.45]But dear Margaret remembers that for me.