Amsterdam

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In the port of Amsterdam
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There's a sailor who sings
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Of the dreams that he brings
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From a wide open sea
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And in the port of Amsterdam
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There's a sailor who sleeps
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While the river bank weeps
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To the old willow tree
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And in the port of Amsterdam
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There's a sailor who dies
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Full of beers full of cries
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In a drunken down fight
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And in the port of Amsterdam
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There's a sailor who is born
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On the hot muggy morn
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By the dawns early light

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In the port of Amsterdam
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Where the sailors all meet
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There's a sailor who eats
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Only fish heads and tails
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He'll show you his teeth
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That have rotted too soon
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That can haul up the sails
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That can swallow the moon
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And he'll yell to the cook
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With his arms open wide
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Oh bring me more fish
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Though it's down by my side
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And he wants so to belch
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But he's too full to try
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So he stands up and laughs
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And he zips up his flies

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In the port of Amsterdam
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You can see sailors dance
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Paunches bursting their pants
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Grinding women's with paunch     
(not sure about this line)
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They've forgotten the tune
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That their whiskey voice croaks
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Splitting the night
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With the roar of their jokes
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And they turn and they dance
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And they laugh and they lust
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Till the rancid sound
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Of the accordion bursts
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And then out of the night
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With their pride in their pants
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And the slut that they tow
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Underneath the street lamps

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In the port of Amsterdam
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There's a sailor who drinks
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And he drinks and he drinks
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And he drinks once again
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Oh he drinks to the health
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Of the whores of Amsterdam
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Who have given their bodies
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To a thousand other men
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It's their worth and their goodness
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Their virtues all gone
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For the few dirty coins
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When he just can't go on
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Throws his nose to the sky
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And he aims it up above
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And he pisses like I cry
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For an unfaithful love

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In the port of Amsterdam
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In the port of Amsterdam