Amsterdam Lyrics - Singles - John Denver

Amsterdam Lyrics 

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 down fight 

But in the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who's born 

On a muggy, hot morn by the dawns 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 

He will show you his teeth that have rotted too soon 

That can swallow the moon that can haul up the sails 

And he yells to the cook with his arms open wide 

Bring me more fish, put it down by my side 

And he wants so to belch, but he's too full to try 

So he gets up and he laughs, and he zips up his fly 

In the port of Amsterdam you can see sailors dance 

paunches bursting their pants, grinding women to pot 

They've forgotten the tune that their whiskey voice croak 

Splitting the night with the roar of their jokes 

And they turn and they dance and they laugh and they lust 

To the rancid sounds of the accordion burst 

Then their out into the night with their pride in their pants 

With a slut that they tow underneath the street lamps 

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In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who drinks 

And he drinks, and he drinks, and he drinks once again 

He drinks to the health of the whores of Amsterdam 

Who have promised their love to a thousand other men 

And they bargain their bodies, and their virtue long gone 

For a few dirty coins and then when he can't go on 

He plants his nose in the sky and he wipes it up above 

And he spits like I'd cry for an unfaithful love 

In the port of Amsterdam, 

In the port of Amsterdam 

In the port of Amsterdam