Port Of Amsterdam Chords by Dave Van Ronk

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_ _ _ _ In the [Am]
port of Amsterdam _ there's [E] a sailor who sings
[F] Of the dreams that he brings from the [E] wide open sea
_ [Am] In the port of Amsterdam _ there's a [Em] _
sailor who sleeps
_ [F] While the river bank [E] weeps to the [Am] old willow tree
_ _ In [C] the port of Amsterdam there's [G] a sailor who [E] _ dies
Full [Am] of fear, full of cries in [E] a drunken down fight
_ [Em]
And in [F] the port of Amsterdam _ there's [Em] a sailor who's born
On [F] a muggy hot _ [E] morn by [Am] the _ dawn's early _ light
In the port of _ Amsterdam where [Em] the sailors all meet
[F] There's a sailor who eats [E] only fish heads and tails
[Am] He will show you his teeth that have [B] rotted too [E]
soon
That can [F] swallow the [C#m] moon, that [Am] can haul up the sails
[C] And he yells to the cook [G] with his arms [E] open wide
_ [Am] Bring me more fish, put them [Em] down by my side
Then he [F] wants some to belch, but he's [Em] too full to try
So [F] he gets up and [E] laughs and he [Am] zips up his fly
In the port of Amsterdam [Em] you can see sailors stand
[F] Oranges poising their pans, grinding [E]
women to barge
[Am] They've forgotten the tune that [Em] their whiskey-voiced croaks
_ [F] Splitting the [E] night with the rye of their jugs
And they [C] turn and they dance and [G] they laugh
_ [E] _ Till [Am] the rancid sound of the [E] accordion bursts
[F] Then out to the night with [Em] their pride in their pants
With [F] the sluts that [E] they too [Am] underneath their sneak latch
In the port of Amsterdam there's a [Em] sailor who drinks
[F] And he drinks and he drinks and he [E] drinks once again
[Am] He drinks to the health of the [Em] whores of Amsterdam
[F] Who have promised their love to [Am] ten thousand men
[C] They bargain their bodies, [G] their virgins [E] are gone
[Am] For a few dirty coins when [E] he can't go on
He [F] plunges his nose in the sky, _ [Em] wipes it up above
[F] And he pisses like a criper [Am] and angries far out
In the port of [G] Amsterdam, [F] the port of [E] Amsterdam
In [Am] the port of [G] Amsterdam, in [F] the port of [E]
Amsterdam
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