AmEm
In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who sings
FE
Of the dreams that he brings from the wide open sea
AmEm
In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who sleeps
DmEAm
While the river bank weeps to the old willow tree
CGE
In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who dies
AmEmE
Full of beer, full of cries in a drunken town fight
FE
In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who's born
DmEAm
On a hot muggy morn by the dawn's early light
[ACOUSTIC]
AmAmEm
In the port of Amsterdam where the sailors all meet
FE
There's a sailor who eats only fish heads and tails
AmEm
And he'll show you his teeth that have rotted too soon
DmEAm
That can haul up the sails that can swallow the moon
CGE
And he yells to the cook with his arms open wide
AmEmE
Hey, bring me more fish throw it down by my side
FE
And he wants so to belch but he's too full to try
DmEAm
So he stands up and laughs and he zips up his fly
AmEm
In the port of Amsterdam you can see sailors dance
FE
Paunches bursting their pants grinding women to porch
AmEm
They've forgotten the tune that their whiskey voice croaked
DmEAm
Splitting the night with the roar of their jokes
CGE
And they turn and they dance and they laugh and they lust
AmEmE
Till the rancid sound of the accordion bursts
FE
And then out of the night with their pride in their pants
DmEAm
And the sluts that they tow underneath the street lamps
AmEm
In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who drinks
FE
And he drinks and he drinks and he drinks once again
AmEm
He'll drink to the health of the whores of Amsterdam
DmEAm
Who've given their bodies to a thousand other men
CGE
Yeah, they've bargained their virtue their goodness all gone
AmEmE
For a few dirty coins well he just can't go on
FE
Throws his nose to the sky and he aims it up above
DmEAm
And he pisses like I cry on the unfaithful love
AmEm
In the port of Amsterdam, in the port of Amsterdam
FEAmEAm
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