{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1514703,"song":"Amsterdam","artist":"David Bowie","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1514703-amsterdam-chords-by-david-bowie/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1514703?type=chord","rating":4.78299,"votes":288,"content":"(Port of) AMSTERDAM\r\nWritten by Jacques Brel (original lyrics in French, English by David Bowie – 1972)\r\nAs performed by David Bowie\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                 [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIn the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who sings[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]                              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nOf the dreams that he brings from the wide open sea[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]                          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIn the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who sleeps[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Dm[/ch]         [ch]E[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhile the river bank weeps to the old willow tree[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nIn the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who dies[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nFull of beer, full of cries in a drunken town fight[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]                           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nIn the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who's born[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOn a hot muggy morn by the dawn's early light[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]Am[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]                          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIn the port of Amsterdam where the sailors all meet[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]                    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThere's a sailor who eats only fish heads and tails[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]                           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd he'll show you his teeth that have rotted too soon[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]          [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThat can haul up the sails that can swallow the moon[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd he yells to the cook with his arms open wide[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]                           [ch]Em[/ch]         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHey, bring me more fish, throw it down by my side[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]                          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd he wants so to belch but he's too full to try[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Dm[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSo he stands up and laughs and he zips up his fly[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIn the port of Amsterdam you can see sailors dance[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]                              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nPaunches bursting their pants, grinding women to porch[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Am[/ch]                         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThey've forgotten the tune that their whiskey voice croaked[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSplitting the night with the roar of their jokes[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd they turn and they dance and they laugh and they lust[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch]                    [ch]Em[/ch]      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nTill the rancid sound of the accordion bursts[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]                           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd then out of the night with their pride in their pants[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Dm[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd the sluts that they tow underneath the street lamps[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]                          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIn the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who drinks[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]                           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd he drinks and he drinks and he drinks once again[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]                         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHe'll drink to the health of the whores of Amsterdam[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]          [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWho've given their bodies to a thousand other men[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nYeah, they've bargained their virtue, their goodness all gone[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]                       [ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nFor a few dirty coins, well he just can't go on[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThrows his nose to the sky and he aims it up above[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd he pisses like I cry on the unfaithful love[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]                        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIn the port of Amsterdam, in the port of Amsterdam[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]F[/ch]  [ch]E[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]","plain_text":"(Port of) AMSTERDAM\nWritten by Jacques Brel (original lyrics in French, English by David Bowie – 1972)\nAs performed by David Bowie\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nAm\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nF  E  Am  E Am","chords":["Am","Em","F","E","Dm","C","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}