Key: A major
Verse 1
To leave his thumb jammed in the dead
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That's a secret only Margaret knows
When Amsterdam is golden
in the morning,
and she believes him.
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He thinks the tulips bloom
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Barbara only sees that sometimes
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children in his eyes
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Let us go to the banks of the ocean
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Where the walls rise above
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Long ago, I used to be a man,
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bers that for me.
The Dutchman still wears wooden shoes,
his cap and coat are patched with blood,
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but Margaret's sewn in.
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Sometimes he thinks
He watches tugboats down canals
Calls out to them,
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Till Margaret comes to take
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the Treppen knows she holds his arm
thinks that he's alone
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and calls her name
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Let us go to the banks of the ocean,
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where the walls rise above the Zeitgeist. Long ago,
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I used to be a young man,
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members that for me.
The windmill's swirling wintery,
she wraps his muffler tightly,
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And the tea with whiskey
She leaves him for a moment,
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They learned it when the
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they hum together in the night
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Margaret blows
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Let us go to the banks of the ocean
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Where the walls rise above
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Long ago I used to be a man
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And dear Margaret remembers that day
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Let us go to the banks of the ocean,
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where the walls rise above
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Long ago, I used to be a man,
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and dear Margaret, was that for me?
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