Amsterdam chords by David Bowie

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)

Here's David Bowie's version of Jacques Brel's Amsterdam
as sung by Mr Jones with accoustic guitar on 'Bowie at the
Beeb - the best of the BBC sessions 68-72'

Davey plays each chord once for the first verse and then
starts strumming with a driving rhythm enhanced by various
hammer-ons etc. I love it.


	A minorAm
In the port of Amsterdam
	E minorEm
There's a sailor who sings
	FF
Of the dreams that he brings
	E MajorE
From a wide open sea
	A minorAm
And in the port of Amsterdam
	E minorEm
There's a sailor who sleeps
	FF	E7E7
While the river bank weeps
	A minorAm
To the old willow tree
	C majorC
And in the port of Amsterdam
	G7G7	E7E7
There's a sailor who dies
	A minorAm
Full of beers full of cries
	E7E7
In a drunken down fight
	FF
And in the port of Amsterdam
	E minorEm
There's a sailor who is born
	Dm7Dm7	E7E7
On the hot muggy morn
	A minorAm
By the dawns early light

	A minorAm
In the port of Amsterdam
	E minorEm
Where the sailors all meet
	FF
There's a sailor who eats
	E MajorE
Only fish heads and tails
	A minorAm
He'll show you his teeth
	E minorEm
That have rotted too soon
	FF	E7E7
That can haul up the sails
	A minorAm
That can swallow the moon
	C majorC
And he'll yell to the cook
	G7G7	E7E7
With his arms open wide
	A minorAm
Oh bring me more fish
	E7E7
Though it's down by my side
	FF
And he wants so to belch
	E minorEm
But he's too full to try
	Dm7Dm7	E7E7
So he stands up and laughs
	A minorAm
And he zips up his flies

	A minorAm
In the port of Amsterdam
	E minorEm
You can see sailors dance
	FF
Paunches bursting their pants
	E MajorE
Grinding women's with paunch   (not sure about this line)
	A minorAm
They've forgotten the tune
	E minorEm
That their whiskey voice croaks
	FF	E7E7
Splitting the night
	A minorAm
With the roar of their jokes
	C majorC
And they turn and they dance
	G7G7	E7E7
And they laugh and they lust
	A minorAm
Till the rancid sound
	E7E7
Of the accordion bursts
	FF
And then out of the night
	E minorEm
With their pride in their pants
	Dm7Dm7	E7E7
And the slut that they tow
	A minorAm
Underneath the street lamps

	A minorAm
In the port of Amsterdam
	E minorEm
There's a sailor who drinks
	FF
And he drinks and he drinks
	E MajorE
And he drinks once again
	A minorAm
Oh he drinks to the health
	E minorEm
Of the whores of Amsterdam
	FF	E7E7
Who have given their bodies
	A minorAm
To a thousand other men
	C majorC
It's their worth and their goodness
	G7G7	E7E7
Their virtues all gone
	A minorAm
For the few dirty coins
	E7E7
When he just can't go on
	FF
Throws his nose to the sky
	E minorEm
And he aims it up above
	Dm7Dm7	E7E7
And he pisses like I cry
	A minorAm
For an unfaithful love

	A minorAm
In the port of Amsterdam
	E minorEm		DmDm E7E7 A minorAm
In the port of Amsterdam


Submitted by Mr Thyroid

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