Amsterdam-David Bowie

[ti:Amsterdam] [ar:David Bowie] [al:The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars(30th Anniversary Edition)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Amsterdam - David Bowie [00:01.96]In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who sings [00:09.42]Of the dreams that he brings from the wide open sea [00:17.62]In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who sleeps [00:25.40]While the river bank weeps to the old willow tree [00:32.97]In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who dies [00:41.13]Full of beer full of cries in a drunken town fight [00:48.20]In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who's born [00:54.80]On a hot muggy morn by the dawn's early light [01:07.97]In the port of Amsterdam where the sailors all meet [01:12.87]There's a sailor who eats only fish heads and tails [01:18.02]And he'll show you his teeth that have rotted too soon [01:23.13]That can haul up the sails that can swallow the moon [01:28.07]And he yells to the cook with his arms open wide [01:33.00]"Hey bring me more fish throw it down by my side" [01:38.46]And he wants so to belch but he's too full to try [01:43.50]So he stands up and laughs and he zips up his fly [01:48.64]In the port of Amsterdam you can see sailors dance [01:53.82]Paunches bursting their pants grinding women to porch [01:58.93]They've forgotten the tune that their whiskey voice croaked [02:04.42]Splitting the night with the roar of their jokes [02:09.29]And they turn and they dance and they laugh and they lust [02:14.52]Till the rancid sound of the accordion bursts [02:19.59]And then out of the night with their pride in their pants [02:24.84]And the sluts that they tow underneath the street lamps [02:30.06]In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who drinks [02:35.13]And he drinks and he drinks and he drinks once again [02:40.25]He'll drink to the health of the w***es of Amsterdam [02:45.34]Who've given their bodies to a thousand other men [02:49.94]Yeah they've bargained their virtue their goodness all gone [02:55.52]For a few dirty coins well he just can't go on [03:00.77]Throws his nose to the sky and he aims it up above [03:05.77]And he pisses like I cry on the unfaithful love [03:11.03]In the port of Amsterdam [03:13.50]In the port of Amsterdam