Amsterdam

David Bowie

Originally recorded by
Jacques Brel

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Album Information
Album Name (Year): Bowie At The Beeb: The Best Of The BBC Radio Sessions 68-72 (2000)
Record Label: Virgin Records
Billboard Chart: The Billboard 200
Entry Week (Position): 10/14/2000 (181)
Peak Position: 181	Weeks On Chart: 1
Songs On This Album: (Click For Lyrics) Disc 1: 1. In The Heat Of The Morning 2. London Bye Ta Ta 3. Karma Man 4. Silly Boy Blue 5. Let Me Sleep Beside You 6. Janine 7. Amsterdam 8. God Knows I'm Good 9. The Width Of A Circle 10. Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed 11. Cygnet Committee 12. Memory Of A Free Festival 13. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud 14. Bombers 15. Looking For A Friend 16. Almost Grown 17. Kooks 18. It Ain't Easy Disc 2: 1. The Supermen 2. Eight Line Poem 3. Hang On To Yourself 4. Ziggy Stardust 5. Queen Bitch 6. I'm Waiting For The Man 7. Five Years 8. White Light/White Heat 9. Moonage Daydream 10. Hang On To Yourself 11. Suffragette City 12. Ziggy Stardust 13. Starman 14. Space Oddity 15. Changes 16. Oh! You Pretty Things 17. Andy Warhol 18. Lady Stardust 19. Rock 'N' Roll Suicide Disc 3: 1. Wild Is The Wind 2. Ashes To Ashes 3. Seven 4. This Is Not America 5. Absolute Beginners 6. Always Crashing In The Same Car 7. Survive 8. Little Wonder 9. The Man Who Sold The World 10. Fame 11. Stay 12. Hallo Spaceboy 13. Cracked Actor 14. I'm Afraid Of Americans 15. Let's Dance

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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

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

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

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Song Information
Song Written By: Jacques Brel
Track Number: Disc 1 - 07	Track Length: 2:56
Billboard Chart: Song did not chart
Entry Week (Position): - -
Peak Position: - -	Weeks On Chart: - -

Song Notes

Also listed as "Port Of Amsterdam" on some Bowie albums.

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