[00:12.59]In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who sings
[00:18.83]Of the dreams that he brings from the wide open sea
[00:24.98]In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who sleeps
[00:30.44]While the river bank weeps to the old willow tree
[00:37.50]In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who dies
[00:43.00]Full of beer, full of cries in a drinkin' down fight
[00:49.67]But in the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who's born
[00:56.23]On a muggy hot morn by the dawns early light
[01:06.59]In the port of Amsterdam where the sailors all meet
[01:12.66]There's a sailor who eats only fish-heads and tails
[01:18.57]He will show you his teeth that have rotted too soon
[01:24.22]That can swallow the moon, that can haul up the sails
[01:30.07]And he asks to the cook with his arms open wide
[01:36.79]Bring me more fish, put it down by my side
[01:41.21]And he wants so to belch, but he's too full to try
[01:46.70]So he gets up and he laughs and he zips up his fly
[01:52.51]In the port of Amsterdam you can see sailors dance
[01:57.82]Haunches bursting their pants, binding woman to paunch
[02:02.89]They've forgotten the tune that their whiskey voice croaks
[02:08.58]And they're splitting the night with the roar of their jokes
[02:13.64]And they turn and they dance and they laugh and they lust
[02:20.46]To the rats it sounds of the accordion burst
[02:25.02]Then it's out into the night with their pride in their pants
[02:30.63]With a slut that they tow underneath the street lamps
[02:35.43]In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who drinks
[02:40.90]And he drinks and he drinks and he drinks once again
[02:45.62]He drinks to the health of the whores of Amsterdam
[02:51.07]Who have promised their love to a thousand other men
[02:55.83]And they darken their bodies and their virtue long gone
[03:01.14]For a few dirty coins and then when he can't go on
[03:05.48]He plants his nose in the sky and he wipes it up above
[03:10.44]And he splits like I cry for an unfaithful love
[03:15.49]In the port of Amsterdam
[03:18.10]In the port of Amsterdam
[03:20.31]In the port of Amsterdam