David Bowie
Port Of Amsterdam
Pinups B-Side (1973)

Am  (douceur)

       Am                          Em
In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who sings
       F                              E
Of the dreams that he brings from the wide open sea
       Am                          Em
In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who sleeps
          Dm         E            Am
While the river bank weeps to the old willow tree

         C                           G          G♯°
  In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who dies
          Am                       Em           E
  Full of beer, full of cries in a drunken town fight
         F                           Em
  In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who's born
       Dm        E           Am
  On a hot muggy morn by the dawn's early light

Am  (intensité)

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

       Am                        Em                 F  E  Am
In the port of Amsterdam, in the port of Amsterdam

E Am


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