Jacques Brel Amsterdam English Translation song by Genius English Translations from Primary Album Jacques-brel-olympia-1964-english-translation. The music is composed and produced by Joel. Genre is Pop, France, English Translation music. The Record company is unknown. Released on January 13, 1967.
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Jacques Brel Amsterdam English Translation Meaning
| [In Amsterdam’s port There are sailors singing The dreams that haunt them By Amsterdam’s seashore In Amsterdam’s port There are sailors sleeping Like banners Along the gloomy seaside In Amsterdam’s port There are sailors dying Full of beers and dramas Since the very first gleams But in Amsterdam’s port There are sailors getting to life In the thick heat Of the ocean’s tiredness In Amsterdam’s port There are sailors eating On tableclothes that are too white Off the fishes slithering They’re showing you the teeth Biting the luck Till they wane the Moon Just biting the shrouds And it smells cod Far up to the french fries’ core That their big hands invite To come up again Then stand up as they laugh In a storm’s noises Sliding up their codpiece And go out burping , In Amsterdam’s port There are sailors dancing Rubbing their belly To the women’s bellies And they’re turning and dancing Like spitten suns In the deafening sound Of a tasteless accordion They’re twirling their necks To hear them laugh better Until all of a sudden The accordion breathes out Then with a rude move Then with a proud look They bring up their flander Up to the bright light In Amsterdam’s port There are sailors drinking And drinking and re-drinking And re-drinking again They’re drinking for the fortune Of all Amsterdam’s whores From Hamburg and elsewhere Finally they drink to the ladies Who give them their nice bodies Who give them their virtue For a golden piece And when they have well drunk And pin their nose to they sky Blowing their nose in the stars And they piss like I cry On the unfaithful women , In Amsterdam’s port In Amsterdam’s port] |
