The Dutch Boy
From the album Milk And Scissors
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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My heart it goes out to that
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poor little Dutch boy
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who stopped a great flood
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with the tip of his thumb
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Through parades and medals
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he felt no joy
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and took to his bed
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with a bottle of rum
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[Verse 2]
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The queen she arrived
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in her motorcade
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to give the good Dutch boy
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a commemorative pen
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But he watched as the milkmaids
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all withered and grayed
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and he knew that the waters
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must rise again
[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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Because the world is made up
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of milk and scissors
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milk and scissors
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in a spiraling chain
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Milk and scissors
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like a cheap squirting flower
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milk and scissors
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like worms when it rains
[Outro]
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