[Verse 1]
In the port of Amsterdam
There's a sailor who sings
Of the dreams that he brings
From the wide-open sea
In the port of Amsterdam
There's a sailor who sleeps
While the river bank weeps
To the old willow tree

[Verse 2]
In the port of Amsterdam
There's a sailor who dies
Full of beer, full of cries
In a drunken town fight
In the port of Amsterdam
There's a sailor who's born
On a muggy hot morn'
In the dawn's early light

[Verse 3]
In the port of Amsterdam
Where the sailors all meet
There's a sailor who eats
Only fish heads and tails
He'll show you his teeth
That have rotted too soon
That can swallow the moon
That can haul up the sails
[Verse 4]
And he yells to the cook
With his arms open wide
"Bring me more fish
Throw it down by my side"
And he wants so to belch
But he's too full to try
So he stands up and laughs
And he zips up his fly

[Verse 5]
In the port of Amsterdam
You can see sailors dance
Paunches bursting their pants
Grinding women to porch
They've forgotten the tune
That their whisky voice croaks
Splitting the night
With the roar of their jokes

[Verse 6]
And they turn and they dance
And they laugh and they lust
To the rancid sound
Of the accordion bursts
Then out in the night
With their pride in their pants
And the slut that they tow
Underneath the streetlamps
[Verse 7]
In the port of Amsterdam
There's a sailor who drinks
And he drinks and he drinks
And he drinks once again
He'll drink to the health of
Whores of Amsterdam
Who promised their love
To a thousand other men

[Verse 8]
Yeah, they bargain their bodies
Their virtue all gone
For a few dirty coins
When he can't go on
It was his nose in the sky
[?]Wipes it up above
And he pisses while they cry
For an unfaithful love

In the port of Amsterdam
In the port of Amsterdam
In the port of Amsterdam