[00:01.012]In the port of Amsterdam [00:05.250]There´s a sailor who sings [00:09.243]Of the dreams that he brings [00:13.482]From the wide open sea [00:17.480]In the port of Amsterdam [00:20.922]There´s a sailor who sleeps [00:25.441]While the river bank weeps [00:29.424]To the old willow tree [00:33.084]In the port of Amsterdam [00:35.735]There´s a sailor who dies [00:40.541]Full of beer, full of cries [00:45.056]In a drunken town fight [00:48.505]In the port of Amsterdam [00:51.112]There´s a sailor who´s born [00:54.821]On a hot muggy morn [00:58.278]By the dawn´s early light [01:07.772]In the port of Amsterdam [01:10.425]Where the sailors all meet [01:12.813]There´s a sailor who eats [01:15.469]Only fish heads and tails [01:17.866]And he´ll show you his teeth [01:20.529]That have rotted too soon [01:22.674]That can haul up the sails [01:25.601]That can swallow the moon [01:28.257]And he yells to the cook [01:30.912]With his arms open wide [01:33.316]"Hey, bring me more fish [01:35.706]Throw it down by my side" [01:38.358]And he wants so to belch [01:41.037]But he´s too full to try [01:43.422]So he stands up and laughs [01:46.076]And he zips up his fly [01:48.742]In the port of Amsterdam [01:51.129]You can see sailors dance [01:53.790]Paunches bursting their pants [01:56.190]Grinding women to porch [01:58.841]They´ve forgotten the tune [02:01.264]That their whiskey voice croaked [02:03.927]Splitting the night With the roar of their jokes [02:08.911]And they turn and they dance [02:11.251]And they laugh and they lust [02:13.909]Till the rancid sound of the accordion bursts [02:19.488]And then out of the night [02:22.141]With their pride in their pants [02:24.529]And the b*****s that they tow [02:27.178]Underneath the street lamps [02:29.854]In the port of Amsterdam [02:32.505]There´s a sailor who drinks [02:34.903]And he drinks and he drinks [02:37.548]And he drinks once again [02:39.965]He´ll drink to the health [02:42.619]Of the whores of Amsterdam [02:45.274]Who´ve given their bodies [02:47.661]To a thousand other men [02:50.329]Yeah, they´ve bargained their virtue [02:53.254]Their goodness all gone [02:55.376]For a few dirty coins [02:58.295]Well he just can´t go on [03:00.996]Throws his nose to the sky [03:03.102]And he aims it up above [03:05.763]And he pisses like I cry [03:08.436]On the unfaithful love [03:11.076]In the port of Amsterdam [03:15.887]In the port of Amsterdam