[00:17.36]The Dutchman's not the kind of man
[00:20.25]Who keeps his thumb jammed in the dam
[00:23.21]That holds his dreams in,
[00:29.21]But that's a secret that only Margaret knows.
[00:36.91]When Amsterdam is golden in the morning,
[00:40.69]Margaret brings him breakfast,
[00:42.79]She believes him.
[00:48.57]He thinks the tulips bloom beneath the snow.
[00:52.68]He's mad as he can be, but Margaret only sees that sometimes,
[00:58.56]Sometimes she sees her unborn children in his eyes.
[01:04.67]Let us go to the banks of the ocean
[01:10.06]Where the walls rise above the Zuider Zee.
[01:15.62]Long ago, I used to be a young man
[01:20.81]And dear Margaret remembers that for me.
[01:35.34]The Dutchman still wears wooden shoes,
[01:38.04]His cap and coat are patched with the love
[01:40.95]That Margaret sewed there.
[01:46.77]Sometimes he thinks he's still in Rotterdam.
[01:54.42]And he watches the tug-boats down canals
[01:57.59]An' calls out to them when he thinks he knows the Captain.
[02:06.17]Till Margaret comes
[02:07.70]To bring him home again
[02:10.30]Through unforgiving streets that trip him, though she holds his arm,
[02:16.20]Sometimes he thinks he's alone and he calls her name.
[02:22.15]Let us go to the banks of the ocean
[02:27.60]Where the walls rise above the Zuider zee.
[02:33.15]Long ago, I used to be a young man
[02:38.42]And dear Margaret remembers that for me.
[03:14.72]The winters whirl the windmills in
[03:17.64]She winds his muffler tighter
[03:19.98]And they sit in the kitchen.
[03:26.12]Some tea with whiskey keeps away the dew.
[03:34.01]And he sees her for a moment, calls her name,
[03:37.77]She makes the bed up humming some old love song
[03:45.65]She learned it when the tune was very new
[03:49.31]He hums a line or two
[03:52.23]They hum together in the night
[03:55.32]The Dutchman falls asleep and Margaret blows the candle out
[04:01.44]Let us go to the banks of the ocean
[04:06.75]Where the walls rise above the Zuiderzee.
[04:12.39]Long ago, I used to be a young man
[04:17.68]And dear Margaret remembers that for me.
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