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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