Amsterdam Uke tab by David Bowie

7 Chords used in the song: Dm, Am, A#, A, Gm, F, C

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Year:  2000
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3.36
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Key: DmChords
Dm Dm                            Am Am
In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who sings
A# A# A A
Of the dreams that he brings from the wide open sea
Dm Dm Am Am
In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who sleeps
Gm Gm A A Dm Dm
While the river bank weeps to the old willow tree
F F C C A A
In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who dies
Dm Dm Am Am A A
Full of beer, full of cries in a drunken town fight
A# A# A A
In the port of Amsterdam, there's a sailor who's born
Gm Gm A A Dm Dm
On a hot muggy morn by the dawn's early light

Dm Dm
Dm Dm Am Am
In the port of Amsterdam where the sailors all meet
A# A# A A
There's a sailor who eats only fish heads and tails
Dm Dm Am Am
And he'll show you his teeth that have rotted too soon
Gm Gm A A Dm Dm
That can haul up the sails that can swallow the moon
F F C C A A
And he yells to the cook with his arms open wide
Dm Dm Am Am A A
Hey, bring me more fish throw it down by my side
A# A# A A
And he wants so to belch but he's too full to try
Gm Gm A A Dm Dm
So he stands up and laughs and he zips up his fly

Dm Dm Am Am
In the port of Amsterdam, you can see sailors dance
A# A# A A
Paunches bursting their pants grinding women to porch
Dm Dm Am Am
They've forgotten the tune that their whiskey voice croaked
Gm Gm A A Dm Dm
Splitting the night with the roar of their jokes
F F C C A A
And they turn and they dance and they laugh and they lust
Dm Dm Am Am A A
Till the rancid sound of the accordion bursts
A# A# A A
And then out of the night with their pride in their pants
Gm Gm A A Dm Dm
And the sluts that they tow underneath the street lamps

Dm Dm Am Am
In the port of Amsterdam, there's a sailor who drinks
A# A# A A
And he drinks and he drinks and he drinks once again
Dm Dm Am Am
He'll drink to the health of the whores of Amsterdam
Gm Gm A A Dm Dm
Who've given their bodies to a thousand other men
F F C C A A
Yeah, they've bargained their virtue their goodness all gone
Dm Dm Am Am A A
For a few dirty coins well he just can't go on
A# A# A A
Throws his nose to the sky and he aims it up above
Gm Gm A A Dm Dm
And he pisses like I cry on the unfaithful love
Dm Dm
In the port of Amsterdam
Am Am
In the port of Amsterdam

A# A# A A Dm Dm A A Dm Dm

Uke tab by , 04 Jul 2018

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About this song: Amsterdam

This song is by Jacques Brel. Originally sung in French, the English translation was done by Mort Shuman for the American musical revue of the songs of Jacques Brel, "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris". This and several other of these English-translated Brel songs were also recorded by Scott Walker. David Bowie also recorded another from this Brel collection: "My Death". Read more on Last.fm.

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