Amsterdam
by AJ Roach
transcribed by Eitan Altshuler
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In the Port of Amsterdam, there s a sailor who sings
Of the dreams that he brings from a wide-open sea
And in the Port of Amsterdam, there s a sailor who sleeps
as the river bank weeps with the old willow tree
And in the Port of Amsterdam, there s a sailor who dies
full of beer, full of cries from a drunken town fight
And in the Port of Amsterdam, there s a sailor who s born
on a hot, muggy morn, neath the dawns early light
In the Port of Amsterdam, where the sailors all meet
there s a sailor who eats only fish heads and tails
He ll show you his teeth that have rotted too soon
That could haul up the sails, that could swallow the moon.
And he ll scream to the cook, with his arms open wide
Bring me more fish, throw em down by my side
And he wants so to belch, but he s too full to try
So he stands up and laughs, and then unzips his fly
In the Port of Amsterdam, you can watch sailors dance
**Honchos burst in their pants, finding women to punch
They ve forgotten the tune that their whiskey voice croaked
Spending the night with the roar of their joke
And they turn and they dance and they laugh and they lust
To the rancid sound of their accordion burst
And then out in the night with their pride in their pants
And the s after **two underneath the street lamps
In the Port of Amsterdam, there s a sailor who drinks
And he drinks and he drinks and he drinks once again
And he drinks to the health of the s of Amsterdam
Who have given themselves to a thousand other men
And they ll trade in their virtue, their goodness all gone
For a **pilfery of coins, till they just can t go on
Throws his nose to the sky, and he aims up above
And then pisses a cry for an unfaithful love
In the PORT OF AMSTERDAM, In the PORT OF AMSTERDAM!!!