How to Play The Dutchman on Guitar?

Liam Clancy - The Dutchman can be played in the key of C using the C, Dm, G, Am chords. For C, To play C, press fret 1 on the B string with finger 2, let low E, G, high E ring open, mute A, D. For Dm, To play Dm, press fret 1 on the low E string with finger 2, press fret 1 on the high E string with finger 2, let A, D ring open, mute G, B. For G, To play G, press fret 2 on the A string with finger 2, let D, G, B ring open, mute low E, high E. For Am, To play Am, press fret 1 on the B string with finger 2, let low E, A, high E ring open, mute D, G. Barre: Use your index finger to press multiple strings on the same fret, keeping your finger flat. You can play The Dutchman with the ↓-↓↑-↓↑-↓↑ strumming pattern.

Liam Clancy - The Dutchman Chords

Chord reference C, Dm, G, Am

Rhythm tips ↓-↓↑-↓↑-↓↑

The [C]Dutchman’s not the kind of man to keep his thumb jammed in the dam That [Dm]holds his dreams in [Dm] [G]But that’s a secret that only [C]Margaret knows.

[C]When Amsterdam is golden, In the morning Margaret brings him breakfast, [Dm] She believes him. [G]

[G]He thinks the tulips bloom [C]beneath the snow. He’s mad as [Dm]he can be, but [G]Margaret only [C]sees that [G]sometimes, [Am]Sometimes she [Dm]sees her unborn [G]children in his [C]eyes.

Let us [Dm]go to the [G]banks of the [C]ocean [G] [Am] [Dm]Where the walls rise a[G]bove the Zuider [C]Zee. [G] [Am] Long a[Dm]go, I [G]used to be a [C]young man [G] [Am] And dear [Dm]Margaret re[G]members that for [C]me.

[C]The Dutchman still wears wooden shoes, his cap and coat are patched with the love That [Dm]Margaret sewed there. [Dm] [G]Sometimes he thinks he’s still in [C]Rotterdam. He [C]watches the tugboats down canals

An’ calls out to them when he thinks he [Dm]knows the Captain. [Dm] [G] Till Margaret comes to take him [C]home again Through unfor[Dm]giving streets that [G]trip him, though she [C]holds his arm, [G] [Am] Sometimes he [Dm]thinks he’s a[G]lone and he calls her [C]name.

Ohh the [C]windmills swirl the winter wind, she winds his muffler tighter [Dm]they sit in the kitchen. [Dm] [G]And a tea with whiskey keeps a[C]way the dew. He sees her for a moment, calls her name,

She makes the bed up humming [Dm]some old [G]love song, She learned it when the tune was [C]very new He hums a [Dm]line or two, they [G]hum together in the [C]night. [G] [Am] The Dutchman [Dm]falls asleep and [G]Margaret blows the [C]candle out.

Artist Liam Clancy

Album Liam Clancy's Favourites

Genres Folk

Year 1980

Key C

Liam Clancy - The Dutchman can be played in the key of C using the C, Dm, G, Am chords.

For C, To play C, press fret 1 on the B string with finger 2, let low E, G, high E ring open, mute A, D.
For Dm, To play Dm, press fret 1 on the low E string with finger 2, press fret 1 on the high E string with finger 2, let A, D ring open, mute G, B.
For G, To play G, press fret 2 on the A string with finger 2, let D, G, B ring open, mute low E, high E.
For Am, To play Am, press fret 1 on the B string with finger 2, let low E, A, high E ring open, mute D, G.

Barre: Use your index finger to press multiple strings on the same fret, keeping your finger flat.

You can play The Dutchman with the ↓-↓↑-↓↑-↓↑ strumming pattern.