Port Of Amsterdam

David Bowie

• AmiEmiFEAmiEmiDmiEAmi
  S1:
  In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who sings 

  Of the dreams that he brings from the wide open sea 

  And in the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who sleeps 

  While the river bank weeps to the old willow tree
• CGG♯dimAmiEmiEFEmiDmiEAmi
  R1:
  And in the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who dies 

  Full of beer, full of cries in a drunken town fight 

  And in the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who's born 

  On a hot murky morn by the dawn's early light
• Ami
  M1:
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• AmiEmiFEAmiEmiDmiEAmi
  S2:
  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
• CGG♯dimAmiEmiEFEmiDmiEAmi
  R2:
  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
• AmiEmiFEAmiEmiFEAmi
  S3:
  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
• CGG♯dimAmiEmiEFDmiEAmiEmiE
  R3:
  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
• AmiEmiFAmiEmiDmiEAmiEmiE
  S4:
  In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who drinks 

  And he drinks and he drinks and he drinks once again 

  Oh he drink to the health of the whores of Amsterdam 

  Who've given their bodies to a thousand other men
• CGG♯dimAmiEmiEFDmiEAmiAmiFEAmiAmiEmiEmiEmi
  R4:
  Yeah, they bargain their virtue, their goodness all gone 

  For a few dirty coins when they just can't go on 

  Throws his nose to the sky and he aims it up above 

  And he pisses like I cry for a unfaithful love 

  In the port of Amsterdam. In the port of Amsterdam. 

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