Amsterdam Lyrics - David Bowie

1 In the port of Amsterdam

2 There's a sailor who sings

3 Of the dreams that he brings

4 From the wide open sea

5 In the port of Amsterdam

6 There's a sailor who sleeps

7 While the river bank weeps

8 To the old willow tree

9 In the port of Amsterdam

10 There's a sailor who dies

11 Full of beer, full of cries

12 In a drunken town fight

13 In the port of Amsterdam

14 There's a sailor who's born

15 On a hot muggy morn

16 By the dawn's early light

17 In the port of Amsterdam

18 Where the sailors all meet

19 There's a sailor who eats

20 Only fish heads and tails

21 And he'll show you his teeth

22 That have rotted too soon

23 That can haul up the sails

24 That can swallow the moon

25 And he yells to the cook

26 With his arms open wide

27 "Hey, bring me more fish

28 Throw it down by my side"

29 And he wants so to belch

30 But he's too full to try

31 So he stands up and laughs

32 And he zips up his fly

33 In the port of Amsterdam

34 You can see sailors dance

35 Paunches bursting their pants

36 Grinding women to porch

37 They've forgotten the tune

38 That their whiskey voice croaked

39 Splitting the night

40 With the roar of their jokes

41 And they turn and they dance

42 And they laugh and they lust

43 Till the rancid sound of the accordion bursts

44 And then out of the night

45 With their pride in their pants

46 And the sluts that they tow

47 Underneath the street lamps

48 In the port of Amsterdam

49 There's a sailor who drinks

50 And he drinks and he drinks

51 And he drinks once again

52 He'll drink to the health

53 Of the whores of Amsterdam

54 Who've given their bodies

55 To a thousand other men

56 Yeah, they've bargained their virtue

57 Their goodness all gone

58 For a few dirty coins

59 Well he just can't go on

60 Throws his nose to the sky

61 And he aims it up above

62 And he pisses like I cry

63 On the unfaithful love

64 In the port of Amsterdam

65 In the port of Amsterdam