Lyr Req: can someone identify this dutch? song

Subject: Lyr Req: can someone identify this dutch? song
From: mg
Date: 10 Jan 17 - 09:47 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4jcLr6_nSw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4jcLr6_nSw

Dutch group called Paddy's Passion.

Song starts at about 2:21. It sounds familiar.

I just love this group. Just found them..especially love the accordian player.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: can someone identify this dutch? song
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 11 Jan 17 - 06:02 AM

The song is called The Dutchman..... the lyrics....


The Dutchman's not the kind of man
To keep his thumb jammed in the dam
That holds his dreams in
But that's a secret only Margaret knows
When Amsterdam is golden in the morning
Margaret brings him breakfast
She believes him
He thinks the tulips bloom beneath the snow
He's mad as he can be but Margaret only sees that sometimes
Sometimes she sees her unborn children in his eyes

(chorus)
Let us go to the banks of the ocean
Where the walls rise above the Zuider Zee
Long ago I used to be a young man
And dear Margaret remembers that for me

The Dutchman still wears wooden shoes
His cap and coat are patched with love
That Margaret sewed in
Sometimes he thinks he's still in Rotterdam
He watches tugboats down canals
And calls out to them when he thinks he knows the captain
'Til Margaret comes to take him home again
Through unforgiving streets that trip him
Though she holds his arm
Sometimes he thinks that he's alone and calls her name

(chorus)

The windmills whirl the winter in
She winds his muffler tighter
They sit in the kitchen
Some tea with whiskey keeps away the dew
He sees her for a moment calls her name
She makes the bed up humming some old love song
She learned it when the tune was very new
He hums a line or two
They hum together in the night
The Dutchman falls asleep and Margaret blows the candle out

(chorus)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: can someone identify this dutch? song
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 11 Jan 17 - 06:06 AM

Here is the Youtube version, performed by the writer... Michael Peter Smith.   The Dutchman

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: can someone identify this dutch? song
From: mg
Date: 11 Jan 17 - 12:47 PM

thanks. that is a great song..the one i really wanted to know more about comes later at 2.21 into the video...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: can someone identify this dutch? song
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jan 17 - 01:06 PM

Hi, Mary. I don't recognize the 2.21 tune, but I see there is contact information at the end of the clip- you might try the email or website for help.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: can someone identify this dutch? song
From: mg
Date: 11 Jan 17 - 07:34 PM

we are so lucky. found a full-length version of this..have listened to it all afternoon...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkMznksRfgc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkMznksRfgc

go to around 13:40 in song.

Any ideas what song is about?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: can someone identify this dutch? song
From: Leadfingers
Date: 11 Jan 17 - 08:00 PM

Mary - You need a Dutch speaker to sort that out ! It IS a nice tune though

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: can someone identify this dutch? song
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 12 Jan 17 - 03:41 AM

'Any ideas what song is about'


Sailors going ashore, getting drunk. 'Singing and playing, that's what we do'.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: can someone identify this dutch? song
From: Mysha
Date: 07 Feb 17 - 01:39 PM

Hi,

As far as I can tell it's called "Treur niet, mijn liefje".
"Treuren" is to mourne, to grieve, to be sad. "Liefje" is the diminuitive of "lief", which is "love" - the person you love.
So "Don't mourn, my love", etc.

Bye,
                                                                Mysha

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: can someone identify this dutch? song
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 07 Feb 17 - 02:15 PM

Hey Mysha! Good to see you back here!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: can someone identify this dutch? song
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 07 Feb 17 - 10:27 PM

The lyrics are beautiful...I could care less if the tune was $&G "Bookends or Hail Brittania".

It is the final phase, and they are still in love.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Dementia, Senility, Alsheimers, the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.