The Dutchman chords by Walker Jerry Jeff

Chords with lyrics

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  The Dutchman by Michael Peter Smith
  as performed by Jerry Jeff Walker on "Hill Country Rain"

  Standard E MajorE tuning. Capo at 3rd fret.

---Intro--------------------------------------------------------------

  ||: G+G GM7 G6G6 GM7 :||

---Verse 1------------------------------------------------------------

    G+G          GM7
  The Dutchman is not ...

   G6G6          GM7      A minorAm
  to keep his thumb jambed in a ...

    D MajorD               G+G    E minorEm
  But that's a ...|

    G+G      GM7
  When Amsterdam ....
     G6G6        GM7          A minorAm
  in the morning Margaret brings him ...

   D MajorD                  G+G   E minorEm
  He thinks the tulips bloom ...

        A minorAm       D MajorD       B minorBm
  He's mad as he can be, but ....

         A minorAm       D7D7       G+G   G7G7
  Sometimes she sees her unborn ...

---Chorus-------------------------------------------------------------

     C majorC     D MajorD      B minorBm
  Let us go to the banks ..

       C majorC      D MajorD        E minorEm
  where the walls rise a-bove ...

     C majorC   D MajorD      B minorBm
  Long a-go, I used to ...

      C majorC      D7D7        G+G  GM7 G6G6 GM7 G+G ...
  Now dear Margaret re-....[Intro]

---Verse 2------------------------------------------------------------

  The Dutchman still wears wooden ....[Chorus]

---Verse 3------------------------------------------------------------

  The windmills whirl the winter ....
---Summary------------------------------------------------------------

  Intro: ||: G+G  GM7 G6G6  GM7 :||
  Verses: ||: G+G  GM7 G6G6  GM7 A minorAm  /  D MajorD  /  G+G  E minorEm :||
        A minorAm  D MajorD  B minorBm  /  A minorAm  D7D7  G+G  G7G7
  Chorus:   C majorC  D MajorD  B minorBm  /  C majorC  D MajorD  E minorEm  /
        C majorC  D MajorD  B minorBm  /  C majorC  D7D7  G+G  (to Intro)

---Notes--------------------------------------------------------------

  some easy open chords:

       EADgbe
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    A minorAm  002210
    B minorBm  xx4432
    C majorC   032010
    D MajorD   x00232
    D7D7  x00212
    D7D7  x30232
    E minorEm  022000
    E minor 7Em7  020000
    G+G   320003
    G6G6  320000 aka G+G + e in soprano; or simply use E minor 7Em7
    G7G7  320001
    GM7  320002

  In this arrangement, the gentle soprano melody do - ti - la - ti
  plays on the upper e-string in the G+G - GM7 - G6G6 - 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 majorC is available at
  Straussfogel. My arrangement puts the piece in G+G (with the chorus
  in C majorC) and then capo's it up to B-flat major, to match Jerry Jeff.

  Transcribed and submitted by Cliff Prince.
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