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In the port of Amsterdam

There's a sailor who sings

Of the dreams that he brings

From a wide open sea

And in the port of Amsterdam

There's a sailor who sleeps

While the river bank weeps

To the old willow tree

And in the port of Amsterdam

There's a sailor who dies

Full of beers full of cries

In a drunken down fight

And in the port of Amsterdam

There's a sailor who is born

On the hot muggy morn

By the dawns early light

In the port of Amsterdam

Where the sailors all meet

There's a sailor who eats

Only fish heads and tails

He'll show you his teeth

That have rotted too soon

That can haul up the sails

That can swallow the moon

And he'll yell to the cook

With his arms open wide

Oh bring me more fish

Though it's down by my side

And he wants so to belch

But he's too full to try

So he stands up and laughs

And he zips up his flies

In the port of Amsterdam

You can see sailors dance

Paunches bursting their pants

Grinding women's with paunch (not sure about this line)

They've forgotten the tune

That their whiskey voice croaks

Splitting the night

With the roar of their jokes

And they turn and they dance

And they laugh and they lust

Till the rancid sound

Of the accordion bursts

And then out of the night

With their pride in their pants

And the slut that they tow

Underneath the street lamps

In the port of Amsterdam

There's a sailor who drinks

And he drinks and he drinks

And he drinks once again

Oh he drinks to the health

Of the whores of Amsterdam

Who have given their bodies

To a thousand other men

It's their worth and their goodness

Their virtues all gone

For the few dirty coins

When he just can't go on

Throws his nose to the sky

And he aims it up above

And he pisses like I cry

For an unfaithful love

In the port of Amsterdam

In the port of Amsterdam

Submitted by Mr Thyroid