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In The Dutch Mountains, the only internationally successful song by the Nits is about the youthly innocence of frontman Henk Hofstede and what he imagined to be outside of the Amsterdam district where he grew up. He thought there were mountains behind the buildings and that he lived in a valley in t...
I was born in a valley of bricks
Where the river runs high above the rooftops
I was waiting for the cars coming home late at night
From the Dutch mountains
I was standing in a valley of rock
Up to my belly in an early fog
I was looking for the road to a green painted house
In the Dutch mountains
In the Dutch mountains
Mountains
Met a woman in a valley of stone
She was painting roses on the walls of her home
And the moon is a coin with the head of the queen
Of the Dutch mountains
In the Dutch mountains
I lost a button of my shirt today
It fell on the ground and it was rolling away
Like a trail leading me back
To the Dutch mountains
To the Dutch mountains
Mountains
Met a miller on the back of a cow
He was looking for the wind
But he didn't know how
I said: "Follow the cloud that looks like a sheep"
In the Dutch mountains
In the Dutch mountains
In the Dutch mountains
In the Dutch mountains
Mountains
Mountains
Mountains
Mountains
Mountains
Buildings
Buildings
Buildings
Mountains
Mountains
In the Dutch Mountains was written by Henk Hofstede & Rob Kloet & Robert-Jan Stips.
In the Dutch Mountains was produced by The Nits.
The Nits released In the Dutch Mountains on Mon Sep 21 1987.