Amsterdam Lyrics - Scott - Scott Walker

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 riverbank weeps 

With 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 

And in the port of Amsterdam 

There's a sailor who's born 

On a muggy hot morn 

By the dawn's early light 

In the port of Amsterdam 

Where the sailors all meet 

There's a sailor who eats 

Only fishheads 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 

Then he wants so to belch 

But he's too full to try 

So he gets up and laughs 

And he zips up his fly 

In the port of Amsterdam 

You can see sailors dance 

Paunches bursting their pants 

Grinding women to paunch 

They've forgotten the tune 

That their whiskey voice croaks 

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 

Then out to the night 

With their pride in their pants 

With the slut 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 drinks to the health 

Of the whores of Amsterdam 

Who have promised their love 

To a thousand other men 

They've bargained their bodies 

And their virtue long gone 

For a few dirty coins 

And when he can't go on 

He plants his nose in the sky 

And he wipes it up above 

And he pisses like I cry 

For an unfaithful love 

In the port of Amsterdam 

In the port of Amsterdam