Amsterdam-David Bowie

[00:02.21]Artist: David Bowie lyrics [00:02.55]Album: Other Song Lyrics [00:02.93]Title: Amsterdam [00:03.33]by桃花郎 [00:04.75]In the port of Amsterdam [00:06.06]There's a sailor who sings [00:11.99]Of the dream that he brings [00:15.08]From the wide open sea [00:19.42]In the port of Amsterdam [00:22.82]There's a sailor who sleeps [00:27.40]While the river bank weeps [00:29.96]To the old willow tree [00:33.48]In the port of Amsterdam [00:36.72]There's a sailor who dies [00:43.89]Full of beer' full of cries [00:47.95]In a drunken town fight [00:51.88]In the port of Amsterdam [00:53.12]There's a sailor who's born [00:55.94]On a hot muggy morn [00:58.93]By the dawn's early light [01:08.69]In the port of Amsterdam [01:11.91]Where the sailors all meet [01:13.70]There's a sailor who eats [01:15.93]Only fish heads and tails [01:18.91]And he'll show you his teeth [01:21.68]That have rotten too soon [01:24.31]That can haul up the sails [01:26.84]That can swallow the moon [01:29.02]And he yells to the cook [01:32.64]With his arms open wide [01:34.26]"Hey' bring me more fish [01:36.36]Throw it down by my side" [01:40.16]And he wants so to belch [01:42.75]But he's too full to try [01:45.77]So he stands up and laughs [01:47.32]And he zip up his fly [01:49.29]In the port of Amsterdam [01:51.74]You can see sailors dance [01:55.10]Paunches bursting their pants [01:57.59]Grinding women to porch [02:00.50]They've forgotten the tune [02:03.13]That their whiskey voice [02:04.09]croaked [02:05.64]Splitting the night [02:07.10]With the roar of their jokes [02:09.63]And they turn and they dance [02:12.25]And they laugh and they lust [02:14.85]Till the rancid sound [02:17.39]of the accordion bursts [02:20.14]And then out of the night [02:22.62]With their pride in their pants [02:25.47]And the sluts that they tow [02:27.86]Underneath the street lamps [02:30.23]In the port of Amsterdam [02:32.99]There's a sailor who drinks [02:35.08]And he drinks and he drinks [02:36.79]And he drinks once again [02:40.78]He'll drink to the health [02:43.61]Of the whores of Amsterdam [02:46.59]Who've given their bodies [02:48.31]To a thousand other men [02:50.32]Yeah' they've bargained their virtue [02:53.33]Their goodness all gone [02:55.86]For a few dirty coins [02:58.57]Well he just can't go on [03:02.91]Throws his nose to the sky [03:06.10]And he aims it up above [03:08.64]And he pisses like I cry [03:11.33]On the unfaithful love [03:13.15]In the port of Amsterdam [03:14.99]In the port of Amsterdam