Amsterdam Lyrics - Bowie At The Beeb: The Best Of The Bbc Radio Sessions 68-72 - David Bowie

In the port of Amsterdam 

There's a sailor who sings 

Of the dreams that he brings 

From the wide open sea 

In the port of Amsterdam 

There's a sailor who sleeps 

While the river bank weeps 

To the old willow tree 

In the port of Amsterdam 

There's a sailor who dies 

Full of beer, full of cries 

In a drunken town fight 

In the port of Amsterdam 

There's a sailor who's born 

On a hot muggy morn 

By the dawn's early light 

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In the port of Amsterdam 

Where the sailors all meet 

There's a sailor who eats 

Only fish heads and tails 

And he'll show you his teeth 

That have rotted too soon 

That can haul up the sails 

That can swallow the moon 

And he yells to the cook 

With his arms open wide 

"Hey, bring me more fish 

Throw it down by my side" 

And he wants so to belch 

But he's too full to try 

So he stands up and laughs 

And he zips up his fly 

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In the port of Amsterdam 

You can see sailors dance 

Paunches bursting their pants 

Grinding women to porch 

They've forgotten the tune 

That their whiskey voice croaked 

Splitting the night 

With the roar of their jokes 

And they turn and they dance 

And they laugh and they lust 

Till the rancid sound of the accordion bursts 

And then out of the night 

With their pride in their pants 

And the sluts that they tow 

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 

He'll drink to the health 

Of the whores of Amsterdam 

Who've given their bodies 

To a thousand other men 

Yeah, they've bargained their virtue 

Their goodness all gone 

For a few dirty coins 

Well he just can't go on 

Throws his nose to the sky 

And he aims it up above 

And he pisses like I cry 

On the unfaithful love 

In the port of Amsterdam 

In the port of Amsterdam