[ti:Weekend in Amsterdam] [ar:Christy Moore] [al:Folk Tale] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Weekend in Amsterdam - Christy Moore [00:02.87]Written by:Paul McCormack/Barney Rush [00:05.75]When we got our redundancy myself and the lads went on [00:10.32]The spree [00:10.82]A brand new passport in my hand as we took off for The [00:14.80]Netherland [00:15.99]Myself and Dinny and O'Dwyer and Scut at Schiphol we [00:19.33]Were all half cut [00:20.89]We opened up the duty-free the red lemonade and brandy [00:25.32]And we jumped on board a tram [00:28.33]Oh The Weekend that we spent in Amsterdam [00:31.90] [00:33.45]Our first stop was the coffee shop in we went and we [00:37.64]All sparked up [00:38.71]Hashish from Pakistan Morocco Nepal and the Lebanon [00:43.65]All the boys was rollin' joints they forgot to drink [00:48.06]Their pints [00:48.75]Water pipe came bubblin' around took one pull and hit [00:53.21]The ground [00:53.64]Lads wake him if you can [00:56.13]Oh The Weekend that we spent in Amsterdam [00:59.47] [01:01.69]Sunday we went to The Blarney Stone Paddy Wynne had [01:04.68]The Leinster Final on [01:06.45]The Lily Whites and The Boys in Blue the Majors and [01:10.18]Taytos [01:11.61]Over to Mulligan's for the night the bar was leppin' [01:15.12]And the band was shite [01:16.44]De Burgh De Bono and De Wolfe Tones'til Dinny grabbed [01:20.34]The microphone [01:21.72]And gave us Van The Man [01:23.86]Oh The weekend that we spent in Amsterdam [01:27.12] [01:29.06]Macker sez while we're here we'll go and have a look at [01:33.14]The kinky gear [01:34.33]I said a quiet prayer I wouldn't bump into anyone from [01:38.52]Kildare [01:39.73]Big dildos blow-up dolls snap-on tools and hairy [01:43.67]Balls [01:44.86]Vibrators whips and chains zips and fanny ticklers [01:49.27]God between us and all harm [01:51.72]Oh The Weekend that we spent in Amsterdam [01:55.02] [01:57.08]Then we went for a midnight walk all our eyes were out [02:01.11]On stalks [02:02.05]Gay bars bordellos models in the windows with no [02:06.31]Clothes [02:07.12]Dinny he danced all night with a South American [02:11.03]Transvestite [02:12.19]Everything was goin' grand until Dinny tried to drop [02:16.43]The hand There was pandemonium [02:18.54] [02:19.36]Oh The Weekend that we spent in Amsterdam [02:22.81] [02:24.74]The bouncer she was 5' 10" Lowland Heavyweight [02:29.14]Champion [02:29.65]She hit Dinny an awful box the boys ran amok and [02:33.39]Wrecked the shop [02:34.76]We could hear the squad cars getting near it's time [02:37.79]Lads we were out of here [02:39.78]Dinny pulled up his tights and we disappeared into the [02:44.27]Night [02:44.84]All together now one by one [02:47.27]Oh The Weekend that we spent in Amsterdam [02:50.65] [02:52.63]Queen Beatrix she rides her bike Rembrandt is hangin' [02:56.67]Down in The Rijk [02:58.18]Ajax Heineken Van Gogh The Gargle and The Ghanja [03:02.53]Monday morning we were all half cracked we dived into [03:05.89]The Kaisergracht [03:07.71]They fished us out hosed us down and put us on the [03:11.28]Plane to Dublin Home to the Mammy again [03:15.30]Oh The Weekend that we spent Oh The Weekend that we spent Oh The Weekend that we spent in Amsterdam