[ti:Amsterdam] [ar:John Denver] [al:An Evening With John Denver] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Amsterdam (Live at Red Rocks, CO - August 1973) - John Denver [00:17.74]In the port Of Amsterdam there's a sailor who sings [00:22.17] [00:23.11]Of the dreams that he brings from the wide open sea [00:28.36] [00:30.47]In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who sleeps [00:35.03] [00:35.97]While the river bank weeps to the old willow tree [00:42.08] [00:44.95]In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who dies [00:50.69]Full of beer full of cries in a drunken down fight [00:55.37] [00:56.68]But in the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who's born [01:04.31]On a muggy hot morn by the dawns early light [01:12.12] [01:15.67]In the port of Amsterdam where the sailors all meet [01:20.73] [01:22.03]There's a sailor who eats only fish heads and tails [01:27.71] [01:28.77]He will show you his teeth that have rotted too soon [01:34.02] [01:35.32]That can swallow the moon that can haul up the sails [01:41.32] [01:42.06]And he yells to the cook with his arms open wide [01:47.99] [01:49.86]Bring me more fish put it down by my side [01:54.29] [01:55.29]And he wants so to belch but he's too full to try [02:00.91] [02:01.72]So he gets up and he laughs and he zips up his fly [02:06.78] [02:08.21]In the port of Amsterdam you can see sailors dance [02:13.52] [02:14.45]Paunches bursting their pants grinding women to pot [02:20.01]They've forgotten the tune that their whiskey voice croak [02:25.75] [02:26.75]Splitting the night with the roar of their jokes [02:31.93] [02:32.55]And they turn and they dance and they laugh and they lust [02:38.42] [02:40.16]To the rancid sounds of the accordion burst [02:43.66] [02:45.34]Then their out into the night with their pride in their pants [02:50.77] [02:51.39]With a slut that they tow underneath the street lamps [02:56.32] [02:57.44]In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who drinks [03:02.38] [03:03.50]And he drinks and he drinks and he drinks once again [03:08.80]He drinks to the health of the whores of Amsterdam [03:14.29] [03:15.17]Who have promised their love to a thousand other men [03:19.85] [03:20.53]And they bargain their bodies and their virtue long gone [03:26.96]For a few dirty coins and then when he can't go on [03:32.14]He plants his nose in the sky and he wipes it up above [03:37.50]And he spits like I'd cry for an unfaithful love [03:42.82] [03:43.39]In the port of Amsterdam [03:45.45] [03:46.07]In the port of Amsterdam [03:49.06]In the port of Amsterdam