Amsterdam-Scott Walker

[ti:Amsterdam] [ar:Scott Walker] [al:Scott] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.31]Amsterdam - Scott Walker [00:01.37] [00:09.94]In the port of Amsterdam [00:13.18] [00:13.68]There's a sailor who sings [00:17.25]Of the dreams that he brings [00:20.87]From the wide open sea [00:25.56]In the port of Amsterdam [00:28.68]There's a sailor who sleeps [00:32.28]While the riverbank weeps [00:36.03]With the old willow tree [00:39.40] [00:40.34]In the port of Amsterdam [00:43.40]There's a sailor who dies [00:46.46]Full of beer full of cries [00:49.84]In a drunken down fight [00:53.71] [00:54.71]And in the port of Amsterdam [00:58.53]There's a sailor who's born [01:01.96] [01:02.58]On a muggy hot morn [01:05.92] [01:06.60]By the dawn's early light [01:09.60] [01:10.68]In the port of Amsterdam [01:13.60]Where the sailors all meet [01:15.11]There's a sailor who eats [01:17.49]Only fishheads and tails [01:19.55]He will show you his teeth [01:21.86]That have rotted too soon [01:24.04]That can swallow the moon [01:26.17]That can haul up the sails [01:28.18]And he yells to the cook [01:30.48]With his arms open wide [01:32.90]Bring me more fish [01:34.78]Put it down by my side [01:37.03]Then he wants so to belch [01:39.03]But he's too full to try [01:41.21]So he gets up and laughs [01:43.28]And he zips up his fly [01:45.59]In the port of Amsterdam [01:47.65]You can see sailors dance [01:49.53]Paunches bursting their pants [01:51.40]Grinding women to paunch [01:53.44]They've forgotten the tune [01:55.37]That their whiskey voice croaks [01:57.50]Splitting the night with the [01:59.56]Roar of their jokes [02:01.19]And they turn and they dance [02:03.02]And they laugh and they lust [02:05.08]Till the rancid sound of [02:06.96]The accordion bursts [02:08.64]Then out to the night [02:10.40]With their pride in their pants [02:12.52]With the slut that they tow [02:14.39]Underneath the street lamps [02:16.39]In the port of Amsterdam [02:18.21]There's a sailor who drinks [02:19.83]And he drinks and he drinks [02:21.58]And he drinks once again [02:23.46]He drinks to the health [02:25.39]Of the whores of Amsterdam [02:27.33]Who have promised their love [02:28.95]To a thousand other men [02:30.82]They've bargained their bodies [02:32.69]And their virtue long gone [02:34.56]For a few dirty coins [02:36.37]And when he can't go on [02:38.18]He plants his nose in the sky [02:40.00]And he wipes it up above [02:41.81]And he pisses like I cry [02:43.69]For an unfaithful love [02:45.56]In the port of Amsterdam [02:47.62]In the port of Amsterdam