C#m G#m
In the Port of Amsterdam, there's a sailor who sings
A G#m
Of the dreams that he brings from a wide-open sea
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And in the Port of Amsterdam, there's a sailor who sleeps
E G#m C#m
as the river bank weeps with the old willow tree
E B
And in the Port of Amsterdam, there's a sailor who dies
C#m G#m
full of beer, full of cries from a drunken town fight
A G#m
And in the Port of Amsterdam, there's a sailor who's born
E G#m C#m
on a hot, muggy morn, 'neath the dawns early light
C#m G#m
In the Port of Amsterdam, where the sailors all meet
A G#m
there's a sailor who eats only fish heads and tails
C#m G#m
He'll show you his teeth that have rotted too soon
E G#m C#m
That could haul up the sails, that could swallow the moon.
E B
And he'll scream to the cook, with his arms open wide
C#m G#m
Bring me more fish, throw'em down by my side
A G#m
And he wants so to belch, but he's too full to try
E G#m C#m
So he stands up and laughs, and then unzips his fly
C#m G#m
In the Port of Amsterdam, you can watch sailors dance
A G#m
**Honchos burst in their pants, finding women to punch
C#m G#m
They've forgotten the tune that their whiskey voice croaked
E G#m C#m
Spending the night with the roar of their joke
E B
And they turn and they dance and they laugh and they lust
C#m G#m
To the rancid sound of their accordion burst
A G#m
And then out in the night with their pride in their pants
E G#m C#m
And the sluts after **two underneath the street lamps
C#m G#m
In the Port of Amsterdam, there's a sailor who drinks
A G#m
And he drinks and he drinks and he drinks once again
C#m G#m
And he drinks to the health of the whores of Amsterdam
E G#m C#m
Who have given themselves to a thousand other men
E B
And they'll trade in their virtue, their goodness all gone
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For a **pilfery of coins, till they just can't go on
A G#m
Throws his nose to the sky, and he aims up above
E G#m C#m
And then pisses a cry for an unfaithful love
C#m G#m
In the PORT OF AMSTERDAM, In the PORT OF AMSTERDAM!!!
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