in the port of amsterdam

[datasuspect]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejQS9kQDXmk


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

[Parche]

1. fuk amsterdam

fuk the netherlands
fuk eindhoven
fuk windmills
fuk wooden shoes...

:hi:

[tbyg52]

2. Jaques Brel!

Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.
(Well, probably not anymore - is he still alive? Is he well? Is he living in Paris?)

[NC_Nurse]

4. He's dead.

But his music lives on. ;-)

[helderheid]

8. he's alive on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk7YxDzjTxA&feature=related

[Swede]

3. In the Dutch Moutains.

by the Nits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2YxNx46yTM

I was born in a valley of bricks
Where the river runs high above the rooftops.
I was waiting for the cars coming home late at night -
From the Dutch mountains.

I was standing in a valley of rock
Up to my belly in an early fog.
I was looking for the road to a green painted house -
In the Dutch mountains.
In the Dutch mountains
- mountains -.

I met a woman in a valley of stone

She was painting roses on the walls of her hame.
And the moon is a coin with the head of the queen -
Of the Dutch mountains; in the Dutch mountains.

I lost a button of my shirt today

It fell on the ground and it was rolling away.
Like a trail leading me back to the Dutch mountains

To the Dutch mountains
- mountains -.

I met a miller on the back of a cow

He was looking for the wind
but he didn't know how.
I said: "Follow the cloud that looks like a sheep" -
In the Dutch mountains
in the Dutch mountains

In the Dutch mountains
in the Dutch mountains.

- Mountains
mountains
mountains
mountains
mountains
-
- Buildings
buildings
buildings
buildings
mountains. -

[Vidar]

5. "Je pisse comme je pleure sur les femmes infideles."

[nuxvomica]

6. I love that song

One of my pipe dreams is to go to the city itself, get drunk and have a singalong of that with everyone in the bar. I wonder whether the natives like or hate that song.

[mitchum]

7. Thanks...have you read "Bowie In Berlin" yet?

I haven't had a chance, but it apparently details Bowie's strict milk and ice cream diet. Apparently, it went well with the cocaine.
That Dave...

[helderheid]

9. In de stad Amsterdam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBhBJoRjyP8

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. bkmrkng

n vwls ndd