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George Hamilton Live at the 1978 Internationaal Country Festival in Ahoy Rotterdam George Hege Hamilton IV (July 19, 1937 – September 17, 2014) was an American country musician. He began performing in the late 1950s as a teen idol, switching to country music in the early 1960s. The Dutchaman is a song by Steve Goodman. It is about Amsterdam, whereas the concert took place in Rotterdam. Here are the lyrics: The Dutchman is not the kind of man Who keeps his thumb jammed in the dam That holds his dreams in That’s a secret that only Margaret knows When Amsterdam is golden in the summer Margaret brings him breakfast, she believes him He thinks the tulips bloom beneath the snow He’s mad as he can be, Margaret only sees that sometimes Sometimes she sees her unborn children in his eyes The Dutchman still wears wooden shoes And his cap and coat are patched with the love Margaret sewed there Sometimes he thinks he’s still in Rotterdam He watches the tug-boats down canals An’ calls out to them when he thinks he knows the Captain Margaret comes to take him home again Through unforgiving streets that trip him, though she holds his arm Sometimes he thinks he’s alone and he calls her name 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 winters whirl the windmills ’round She winds his muffler tighter, they sit in the kitchen Some tea with whiskey keeps away the dew He sees her for a moment, he calls her name She makes the bed up singing some old love song She learned it when the song was very new He hums a line or two, they hum together in the dark The Dutchman falls asleep, Margaret blows the candles out 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 And dear Margaret remembers that for me This live recording was made by TROS TV, The Netherlands in Ahoy Rotterdam on 18 May 1978 Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ Broadcast date: 18 May 1978 This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Boney M, Smokie, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chick, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, and many many more.
