Amsterdam Cifras para ukulele

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.
 
 
 
[Verse 1]
        Am
In the port of Amsterdam
        Em
There's a sailor who sings
        F
Of the dreams that he brings
        E
From the wide open sea
        Am
And in the port of Amsterdam
        Em
There's a sailor who sleeps
        F       E7
While the river bank weeps
        Am
To the old willow tree
        C
And in the port of Amsterdam
        G7      E7
There's a sailor who dies
        Am
Full of beer full of cries
        E7
In a drunken down fight
        F
And in the port of Amsterdam
        Em
There's a sailor who is born
        Dm7     E7
On a hot muggy morn
        Am
By the dawn's early light
 
 
[Verse 2]
        Am
In the port of Amsterdam
        Em
Where the sailors all meet
        F
There's a sailor who eats
        E
Only fish heads and tails
        Am
He'll show you his teeth
        Em
That have rotted too soon
        F       E7
That can haul up the sails
        Am
That can swallow the moon
        C
And he'll yell to the cook
        G7      E7
With his arms open wide
        Am
"Hey! bring me more fish
        E7
Throw it down by my side"
        F
And he wants so to belch
        Em
But he's too full to try
        Dm7     E7
So he stands up and he laughs
        Am
And he zips up his fly
 
 
[Verse 3]
        Am
In the port of Amsterdam
        Em
You can see sailors dance
        F
Paunches bursting their pants
        E
Grinding women to porch
        Am
They've forgotten the tune
        Em
That their whiskey voice croaked
        F       E7
Splitting the night
        Am
With the roar of their jokes
        C
And they turn and they dance
        G7      E7
And they laugh and they lust
        Am
Till the rancid sound
        E7
Of the accordion bursts
        F
And then out of the night
        Em
With their pride in their pants
        Dm7     E7
And the sluts that they tow
        Am
Underneath the street lamps
 
 
[Verse 4]
        Am
In the port of Amsterdam
        Em
There's a sailor who drinks
        F
And he drinks and he drinks
        E
And he drinks once again
        Am
He drinks to the health
        Em
Of the whores of Amsterdam
        F       E7
Who have given their bodies
        Am
To a thousand other men
        C
Yeah, they bargained their virtue
        G7      E7
Their goodness all gone
        Am
For a few dirty coins
        E7
When he just can't go on
        F
Throws his nose to the sky
        Em
And he aims it up above
        Dm7     E7
And he pisses like I cry
        Am
On the unfaithful love
 
 
[Outro]
        Am
In the port of Amsterdam
        Em              Dm E7 Am
In the port of Amsterdam
 
 
 
Submitted by Mr Thyroid
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