Amsterdam

David Bowie
 Am
 In the port of Amsterdam
 Em/G
There's a sailor who sings
 F
Of the dreams that he brings
 Em/GE
From the wide open sea             

 Am
In the port of Amsterdam
 Em/G
There's a sailor who sleeps
 FE
While the river bank weeps                        
 Am
To the old willow tree

 C
In the port of Amsterdam
 GE/F
There's a sailor who dies                         
 Am
Full of beer, full of cries
 Em/GE
In a drunken town fight            
 F
In the port of Amsterdam
 Em/G
There's a sailor who's born
 FEm/G
On a hot muggy morn                
 Am
By the dawn's early light

(The rest of the song is strummed in 3/4 time)

 Am
 In the port of Amsterdam
 Em/G
Where the sailors all meet
 F
There's a sailor who eats
 Em/G
Only fish heads and tails
 Am
And he'll show you his teeth
 Em/G
That have rotted too soon 
 F
That can haul up the sails
 EAm
That can swallow the moon                                 

 C
And he yells to the cook
 GE/F
With his arms open wide                     
 Am
"Hey, bring me more fish
 Em/G
Throw it down by my side"
 F
And he wants so to belch
 Em/G
But he's too full to try 
 F
So he stands up and laughs
 Em/GAm
And he zips up his fly             

 Am
In the port of Amsterdam
 Em/G
You can see sailors dance
 F
Paunches bursting their pants
 Em/G
Grinding women to porch  
 Am
They've forgotten the tune
 Em/G
That their whiskey voice croaked 
 F
Splitting the night
 EAm
With the roar of their jokes                             
 C
And they turn and they dance
 GE/F
And they laugh and they lust                             
 Am
Till the rancid sound of the accordion bursts                
 Em/G
 F
And then out of the night
 Em/G
With their pride in their pants  
 F
And the sluts that they tow
 Em/GAm
Underneath the street lamps                      

 Am
In the port of Amsterdam
 Em/G
There's a sailor who drinks
 F
And he drinks and he drinks
 Em/G
And he drinks once again
 Am
He'll drink to the health
 Em/G
Of the whores of Amsterdam
 F
Who've given their bodies
 EAm
To a thousand other men                          
 C
Yeah, they've bargained their virtue     
 GE/F
Their goodness all gone                          
 Am
For a few dirty coins
 Em/G
Well he just can't go on
 F
Throws his nose to the sky 
 Em/G
And he aims it up above
 F
And he pisses like I cry 
 Em/GAm
On the unfaithful love             

 Am
In the port of Amsterdam
 E
In the port of Amsterdam
F E Am. E. Am.

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 Em/G = 322000, E/F = X4X454

Tab converted by Cbswe (cbswe@bredband.net)


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