Key: C minor•
Verse 1
Eb
Cm
Most of them had been there
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half the day
Fm
They'd been telling jokes and fairy tales
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Fm
Lying just to pass the
time away
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Cm
Verse 2
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G
the bar room door
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G
And then pushed it open wide
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Cm
And this huge tall dark dude
Bowed his head and stepped inside
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Verse 3
I wonder
where he's from?
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Cm
The wind must have blown him in
But an old Dutchman offered him a drink.
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Fm
What will it be, whisky rum or gin?
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Sick and fido" a redhead shouted
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Show his way back to the street."
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Eb
But the Great Dane just walked
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G
And lay down at his feet
Verse 4
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that drink Dutchman,
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Gm
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Cm
I promise I tell you how
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that stands before you now"
Verse 5
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not one who sits and fiddle on the kerb
But in my day and time
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Fm
My music was considered superb
Verse 6
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I wrote a song about a poor kid
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Raised down in New Orleans
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G
rice an d beans
Verse 7
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the big time,
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Playing town after town
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Until he met a woman he fell in love with
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Verse 8
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And a head of luxurious hair,
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None other could compare
Verse 9
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Bb
Fm
she lifted her eyes to his,
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Her lips would fall apart
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Each time she allowed him kiss her,
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It near petrified his heart
Verse 10
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But when he ask her would she marry him,
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He'd give her everything he had!
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She turned and walked away
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Verse 11
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He promised her a half a million
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And would even pay in advance,
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If she would let
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him prove himself
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Or at least give him a chance
Verse 12
And prepare her every meal
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Verse 13
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How could a man love a woman so much?
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Not one of you would think!
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Well, I did and I still do
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Hey Dutchman, you promised me a drink!
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