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Vocal Coach reacts to reaction to analyses analyzes analysis of breaks down Jacques Brel - Amsterdam (Live officiel Les Adieux à l’Olympia 1966)
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Jacques Romain Georges Brel was a Belgian singer and actor who composed and performed theatrical songs. He generated a large, devoted following-initially in Belgium and France, but later throughout the world. He is considered a master of the modern chanson.
"Amsterdam" is a song by Jacques Brel. It combines a powerful melancholic crescendo with a rich poetic account of the exploits of sailors on shore leave in Amsterdam. Musically, it takes its base melody line from the melody of the English folk song Greensleeves.
Songwriters: Jacques Brel
Performed by Jacques Brel
Genres: Chanson, French Pop
Origin: Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium
Date
Les Adieux à l’Olympia 1966
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As a French speaker, I can confirm : the lyrics in French are incredibly raw, emotional, and nothing can prepare you for this song when you're never heard it before.
The act & the voice are exelent but the lirics are really the big talent of Jaques Brel.
I can confirm. it my favorite
Brel said he had to sing his songs because nobody else would
c'est vrai...
Selon moi c'est une des meilleurs chansons Francaises
There is a concept called "Crescendo Brelien", which is a dramatic progression in writing and performance, because Brel used to write his songs this way.
You can clearly hear it in Amsterdam: the beginning is really soft, but the more the song progresses, the louder and dramatic it becomes
It's really a thing. Just listen to "Marieke", "Le plat pays", "Zangra" and "La valse á mille temps". And there are many more examples of that crescendo.
Et puis... ET PUIS il YA FRIDA! Qui est BELLE comme un SOLEIL! ....
Un très grand monsieur. Il vibre ses chansons, il vit ses chansons. Et quels textes...
Jacque Brel. Seeing him now brings some emotions of nostalgia, and some more.
I spent so many many hours hearing his songs when i was younger.
He was indeed a great performer, but to me he was much more than that.
He was a great poet of human condition. A poet so expressive that he could share his vision of the world like few others.
His songs and his singing helped me understand a little better this human existence when i was totally lost in my illusory rationality and begin to accept that emotion (even the "bad" ones) was an essential part of intelligence when trying to understand this apparent chaos we live in.
I couldn't agree more. Well said.
Brel is by far the most expressive singer ever.
No he is one of them and that same period had one even more famous, her name is Edith Piaf, who sang this song first ....!
edith piaf never sang this song, it's a brel song written by himself
@@charlieosstyn piaf isn t more expressive
@@jellal9550 Well you clearly a dont understand Francais ou Wallon and made me laugh as even Jacques is on record having said so. I have chosen two live performances for you in the first she starts in English !!!! th-cam.com/video/kLH5xBbIBnY/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/KoYHWgj1Gcs/w-d-xo.html
Thanks, Beth, for the very informative and instructive explanation about the the body aspect of singing. That was a very powerful performance by Jacque Brel. Took French for years but I could never ever sing as well as he does in French or anything other language in a million years!
My top 10 Chansonnier:
1. Jacques Brel
2. Serge Reggiani
3 Mouloudji
4. Charles Aznavour
5. Yves Montand
6. Jean Ferrat
7. George Brassens
8. Serge Gainsbourg
9. Edith Piaf
10. Charles Trenet
I’m 23 years old now and I started listening to Chansons when I was 19.
The poetry and passion in the music of the genre Chansons is so beautiful! ❤
I would love to say your remarks are quite refreshing, from someone that do not speak French. I never think of the fact that body movement or opening up a rib cage or even toes can affect the diagram, or the way that consonnes are pronounced (those /b/, /k/, /g/ that explosent) can add to the dynamique of interpretation. What I would like to add is Brel does here is what French expression would say "habiter la chanson", or "habiter la scène" -- maybe a translation of living or incarner a song and on stage. He emits certain type of aura (émettre une aura), a way of "je-ne-sais-quoi" de fascination, that can be mysterious. When we think of charisma (le charisme), it can be "ineffable" (that is, cannot be explained by language). To return to the point of départ, your observations help to explain this form of "le charisme" that can be not linked to the langage or words. P.S. -- he is a poet, I think the text is something special. P.P.S. -- What Japanese would say this song a "kamigakari"-- that is what god express her will through someone so that a person can perform so well. Quite poetic I found.
Brel wrote his songs himself so is not based on another song !
The music is inspired by Greenleeves. Les moulins de mon cœur are the music of Auf dem Wasser zu singen of Schubert, listen piano version, the left hand, not the lieder. Gainsbourg take themes of Chopin, Dvorak, Tchaikovski. It's not a problem. Is this a good song ? Yes it is.
All musics, all songs, are inspired by other musics, other songs. That the road of life.
He wrote the lyrics, but the music arrangement is a variation on greensleeves. This is not a secret, brel acknowledged this himself. Brel didn’t orchestrate his music himself, he worked together with a brilliant classical musician jouannest.
I should have suscribed a long time ago, such good analysises. Done :)
It's exhausting watching Jacques Brel!
John Denver, of all people, performed an hilarious cover of this song in several of his concerts (in English, of course).
David Bowie did an english translation of it , if you're curious.
Hi Beth, such a beautiful song! David Bowie did an awesome version in English in his early years. You should really check it out!
Agreed
He is in his retirement years indeed: Jacques Brel (sadly) died in 1978!
Grand Jacques était tellement énorme !
Pas étonnant que les anglophones se penchent sur son cas !
❤ reminder that Brel was Flemish, the rrrrrr is in our'e dialect.
Spine tingling.
Please listen to Tamino with the song Habibi.
Jack Brel is not France he’s from Belgium and sang with a Belge accent.
He is a belgian singer firsttt 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪
I ask this in all respect. How is you're french? Cause is word play and just his raw émotion... it comes through really...
I am french. Watch this video "c'est gens là"
it feels illegal to put Brel's emotion on pause...
De mon avis, «Mijn vlakke land» est sa meilleure chanson.
"Greensleeves", beautiful track, very nice. However, I prefer the original, English-language versions... Loreena, Leonard Cohen, Olivia!!
I'm not a fan of this track Jacques but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate it... Very interesting, distinctive voice and musical style.
If you want to experience something different, in his style, I recommend:
Jacques Brel - Ces gens là (Yoann Launay) - The Voice of France
Really girl, try that video!
"And they piss like I cry on cheating women..."
you should put lyrics for non french viewers
Must be an old song, it has been forever since the port of Amsterdam was anything worth singing about
Put the subtitles, the outer wilds of writers
hahaha squidge up your toes to sing like Jacques Brel... on aura tout entendu....
Will always prefer Bowie's interpretation.
Not sure you can comment properly if you don't understand the language...... Try comprehending a Shakespeare sonnet if you don't speak English....
great art if you don't understand the texts and the meaning of the words you can't know how great it was
This french "r" is only use in songs. The fr3nch language doesn't use it
Vive la France, juste pour vous faire chier les Belges ^^
What a joke
Brel was the greatest performer, the master. After all these years, nobody can perform like him. He is unique. I have all Brel's 33 rpm vinyl records, a treasure that my son will inherit and after him my grand-daughter.
Brel was the greatest poet and interpreter this world has known.
(sorry, Dylan)
I've seen countless people with even better voices doing covers of Brel's songs, and yet none of them give me the chills and emotions like he does. There is something so true, so personal, so deep when he sings, even decades later you feel like he is talking directly to you. Just seeing his eyes moves me for some reason, he carried so much pain and so much humanity in his soul, we are really blessed that he decided to share it in his music. In my opinion he was the perfect artist in the sense that he was doing everything with his heart, with a meaning, and without ever trying to deceive his audience.
He was -pretty much- My neighbor (few streets around the corner)!
@@Adamaha444you lived in Monaco?
Untrue = false, he was not the only one, he was competing with the likes of Editd Piaf, Je ne regrette rien , here is a rare version of her most famous song, th-cam.com/video/rzy2wZSg5ZM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=uT910GMCFzoaQzBy and Jacques sang many of her songs ....
There are artists, and then there are Artists. Brel was an Artist.
These days I picked up Charles Aznavour to marathon. I didn't remember (or had never noticed before) how good he was: songs, lyrics, acting, stage presence, a complete artist
Dear Beth, Brel was singing in French but was actually Belgian 🙂
Rrrrolling the R's was kind of an old tradition in French chanson (songs) because the real French speaking "R" (that we actually don't roll) was less clear to hear back then when the quality of recording was lower or when singers had to fill an entire theatre without microphone or amplification. This is why you can hear for instance Edith Piaf rrrrolling the R's a lot, as most of singers did before the 50's/60's.
PS: If you want to know about what he was singing, Bowie covered the song in English in a quite litteral version.
Hello,
Nevertheless, he spent most of his life in France, his adopted homeland from 1953 to 1978, when he died in Bobigny.
Peace, folks. ☮😉
@@LetsChillPage spending time in location X does not undo his nationality, origin or major focus of his work which is that his songs are heavily planted in the Belgian, Flemish and Dutch cultures and society - a focus no random Frenchman would give, have or seek unless a connection already would be in place. As the song itself being about a city in "les pays bas" bare witness to this statement, which is why he could flawlessly switch to singing in Flemish when he so wanted to. His Flemish connection can not and should not be understated, not the least as the role he has for the Belgian communities.
@@pouffsie Still sing in french
@@synkeyssynk4627 Which is one of the languages used in Belgium
He started to make a song about the port of Antwerp, but the word Amsterdam suited better than Anvers, the translation of of Antwerpen. @@pouffsie
I think a simple analysis doesn't do justice to this extradordinary musical powerhouse. And I also don't think simply concentrating on certain body movements or singing techniques is going to reveal that. To know Brel is to listen to him, read and understand the lyrics, cause they are such an integral part of his work. Only then can you fully comprehend the immense insight he had in the human condition, e.g. old or simple people (Les Vieux and Ces gens-la), certain types of societal elements (Les flamands, les bourgeois, les bigottes) or deeply personal themes (Ne me quitte pas, Le chanson de Jacky). He to me was the proverbial Don Quixote come to life. His gangly clown-like figure, the suit on which the sleeves would ride up always making it seem to short, his incredibly expressive face, they way he almost shyly transformed all things into sound and words and gestures. He always spoke truth to life and never exempted himself from it. Watching him way back then shows you what a tour de force he was and that there probably wil never ever be anyone else of his stature. I am so grateful for his words and music and I will carry them with me until the end, when the silver pendulum of life that accompanies us all will finally stop.
What a treat to see you react to this powerful and fascinating performer, much overlooked these days. His many magnificent songs are as masterful as the performances - 'chanson' won't quite do - he is impossible to classify into a genre - he's just Brel. Your points about his dynamics are perceptive and enlightening. We lost him to cancer way too early. You can visit his grave in the Seychelles if you're ever out that way. Go girl, one of your Betht (groan).
Méconnu de nos jours....ce sont des incultes, désolée
He died in the Marquesas Islands for the rest, I'm just OK
@@daniellegrand4566 Thanks Danielle, I stand corrected.
@@lifelover515 And my name is "Daniel" Thanks.
🙂
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Another case where the cover version overtakes the original! Sounds amazing!
Wow, what a hauntingly beautiful version
Thank you for granting my wish :-)
Hi Beth, Jacques lived what he sang. He was an actor as well as a singer, and his performances on stage showed that.
Among his other hits, I'd recommend "La valse à mille temps" for its rhythmic crescendo, and "Ces gens-là" for both its filmic and stage performances.
" Ces gens là " Ecellent choice
th-cam.com/video/O6MGGh8WUco/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=InaChansons
"Amsterdan" est très belle, à côté de "Ces gens là", c'est ma chanson préférée de Brel.
"Amsterdan" is beautiful. Beside "Ces gens là" it's my favorite Brel's song.
Mine too!
A brilliant performance. His delivery reminded me a bit of Joe Strummer from The Clash, I wonder if Jacques Brel was an influence on him.
So do you know too "Ne me quittes pas" or "Ces gens là" ?
Jacques was superb. He did a song that David Bowie covered called My Death. There was a singer called Tony Mills who I believe did an even better cover than Bowie. His name is Tony Mills. It’s quite an extraordinary vocal range this guy has. Here is his version
th-cam.com/video/14fXXwRnU7o/w-d-xo.htmlsi=MzZ8p_QCdXLvG59U
If it feels harsh and uncomfortable, that's on purpose. He's not singing in a clean or pretty way, but it _is_ beautiful and absolutely art. The lyrics are liek that as well: an extremely poetic description of something harsh and sometimes gross. It's fascinating to see.
i liked most the line "There are sailors who sleep like banners, along the dreary banks, at the first light of dawn, In the thick heat of the oceanic languors" it's all visual and more
Sorry you talk bout à marvelous and unique, exceptionnal song when you don t understand the Words 😂.
you are moved but you don"t speak French
imagine if you spoke French...
goose bumps
I love Jacques Brel!
Hello Beth! I suggest you react to Ney Matogrosso, a legendary singer from Brazil, performing "O Mundo é um Moinho". I'm sure you'll love it. Best regards from Brazil!
Hello, j 'espère que tu n'es pas passé à coté de toute l’émotion que cette chanson dégage, par l’énergie, l'authenticité de Brel, par cette fatale histoire de marin .
He was such an Artist, truly remarkable!
Fantastic ! But of course, now you have to do Avec le temps de Ferré... many more tears... 😯
Intention, and intensity, you're not just singing music, you're singing words, you've got to believe what you sing, else you're just a singing liar.
It's not just about technic, it's not just method, it's about what it means to you to sing this particular song.
Many old times singers have lessons to be learn.
See "Ces gens là" another song from Jacques BRel, available with translated lyrics.
He is belge , (I'm french) Brel is genious,.He is one of my favorite singer....
I know for english, american for an incredible performance you want to hear big voice, people who keep notes for a long time or a show but for french it's when you sing with your soul and your guts.
The lyrics are AWESOME! So real, so human, so poetic at the same time. The life, the life, the life...
When you talk about biting words. He was friends with Catherine Sauvage (she sang lot's of Léo Ferré's song) who helped him get started on stage. Brel said of her that "she doesn't sing, she bites".
Le Moribond was translated and lyric revised by Rod McKuen....it became Seasons in the Sun...a very popular song performed by McKuen in the 1960's. Very moving rendition that is still on tape.
im a sailor in the north Atlantic and North Sea. he perfectly captures the energy of sailing in a winter storm
Did you ever get into the yé-yé genre during your French kick? I found it recently and am constantly returning to it
de plus elle fait cette vidéo mais elle ne s'exprime pas ce n'est pas normal du tout !
Good choice...le grand JACQUES ! 👍
Es una de las mejores canciones en la historia de la música.
gracias.
React to Julieta Venegas.
a lot of famous singers covered it. Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, David Bowie, John Denver, Lara Fabian and Isabelle Boulay. It takes courage to cover a song like that in France or Belgium because ... well covers and comparisons
Scott Walker made remakes of some of Brel's songs. He is also a talented vocalists.
Including this song
@@Nick-Gye Cool! I haven't heard this one covered by Walker. Thanks!
The accent is purely belgian, and the way the "r" are rolling like a laugh makes Jaques Brel unique.
Un immense chanteur
First, what is ashtosining is that a vocal coach dares to stop so many times in an Brel on stage performance. Perhaps she doesn't know that in a year, Brel was performing more gigs than there are days in a year. Second, she should - as a professional vocal coach - have noticed that because of many file copies from so many format, the video she choose here gives to Brel an higher voice than his real great bass voice. Third : to chose "Amsterdam" is the proof of no search about Brel songs and performances, those who really appreciate Brel would not choose this song at first. Well, I encourage this vocal coach to search for songs like "Au Suivant", or "Mathilde", or "Les remparts de Varsovie", or "Les bonbons", or "Les bonbons 68" : well, I encourage this coach to learn about the genius she is talking about without have made any study about her subject. But she is not that guilty, as 90% of YT "reactors" just don't mind the artits they pretend to react about, when the purpose is just to make views. Who minds about sincerity ?
We have great artists in Belgium Jacque Brel and Lara Fabian are the perfect example
Thanks! Belgian Brel rocked.
It's humbling to think that even though he's clearly one of the great performers of all time the reason he retired was that "he no longer wanted to battle against vomit-inducing stage fright"
Please reed till the end:
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 coin
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 wifes
In Amsterdam's port
In Amsterdam's port
So, Amsterdam is a version of Greensleeves ?? When he open his arms, it's because he talks about the sea and the waves, he makes waves movements with his arms. You totally misunderstood this song. He ALWAYS sang this way, retirement or not.
I've read that he actually wanted to sing (and first did apparently) about Antwerp (also a port there and in Belgium), but 'Dans le port D'Anvers' doesn't sound that good: only 2 instead of 3 syllables...
You seem to forget that the real name of Anvers is flemish viz. Antwerpen !
@@marcvandenbroecke331 Ge bedoelt Antwaarpe, zeker ;) Song is in French: Amsterdam is Amsterdam in French (and in Dutch), Antwerpen in Duch, Anvers in French. See Wikipedia: that matches with what I typed.
Beyond the vocal performance this is also a theatrical performance. All the voice and body language suit to the lyrics. Of course you have to understand them. The song starts with a nice painting of Amsterdam (soft voice and static body) after each verses the voice becomes more rocky and the body moves much more to finish with a full disgusted picture of Amsterdam Harbour.
That was his last performance as a singer, his adieu in the Paris Olympia. But he can keep you busy as he wrote 80 songs.
He was always fully engaged in his songs and I think he had enough, so he stopped, just like that.
Thank you for your reaction.
Those singers are from another aera, there were no effects (but good micros), no cheating, and be recognize by the public was a crazy difficult path of courage and perseverance (and a little luck of course).
.. A port, sailors, "ladies", as Brel calls them, who are also prostitutes: destiny of these ladies, with "pretty bodies" falling into the hands of the roughest men, who tear Brel's soul apart, according to the sincerity of his deepest feelings. Song that could be the image of the type of relationship that Mr Brel had with... the "ladies". Another era?
There is a slight echo of this song, in a word of the lyrics of the song "Orly" [...]
However, after a few moments and, above all, listening to another text by Brel, I realize that, as always, a judgment always deserves to be refined... Is it the characteristic of "artists" to "cover their tracks"?
-> th-cam.com/video/0Ha4Xg60PtM/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for that. I've long adored this performance, which is really a possession, as we are transported to the fetid, visceral docks. The YT version I know ends before the lights come up and cutting at this point freezes you in a moment of profound finality - beyond this point what can be said? The only comparable moment I know of is Prince launcing his guitar skyward (and seeming to never return to earth) as the culmination of his blistering performance of Harrison's While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
« This song is about sailors in Amsterdam » is not quite accurate, nor is this his best rendition of this song.
This is first and foremost a song about a man who was cheated on, the whole Amsterdam part is just the build up and the big reveal comes in the last sentence : « and they pee as much as I cry over unfaithful women ».
You should probably give a listen to Damien Saez ‘s « Putains vous m’aurez plus » which explores the same theme.
Disagree..that end line is not the subject of the song but him comparing, unfavorably, his own weakness to the strength and pride of the sailors the song is actually about
@@reddragonready Sorry but no. Why? Because this song is negatively connoted through and through : « drab, drama, paunch, rancid » etc.
These sailors are born in the city and die in it too. In the meantime they just sleep, eat with no table manners, they belch, they fart (a pun on tempest in French), they dance unappropriately, get drunk, have paid sex and pee. They’re not the topic of the song, but merely illustrate the derelict state of people within the city, whose « dreams that haunt them » remain « at large ».
The repetition « in Amsterdam’s harbour » reflects this feeling of entrapment. People here have lost their purpose : Amsterdam is a den of iniquity where men sully natural beauty to the point that they even blow their noses in the stars.
In the same way, the singer also interestingly evokes women : they’re the birth givers at the beginning, then they’re women, then ladies, and then prostitutes which ties in with his own experience : unfaithful women. (One could argue the mention of cod, which is a synonym for a low-life woman in French, would add to that list). Finally the Brellian crescendo accentuates the spiral into despair and precedes the big reveal : he is different because he’s the only one who suffers.
Also Amsterdam has 3 syllables, compared to Anvers (Antwerp), which has only 2...
Leo Ferré was a great singer too. His song "Avec le temps" make me almost cry every time..
You paused the song at every moments that’s shouldnt be pausd 😂
Rule N°1 of music : Music can make pause, the listener can't ^^
Without english lyrics, you unfortunately missing out of 80% of this song. The force is not only the interprestation but it's mainly the speech.
Chanson music is so emotive. I may not understand the lyrics, I don't speak French, but just closing your eyes and letting it waft over you is a great experience
Well, we can start with one word. Chanson means music! So, technically speaking, you can say to your partner that you're gonna put on some chanson and play black metal.
Chanson means "song". The french word for music is musique. @@Artaxo
Gidon Kremer told once that, even if he has heard in his life a lot of great performances, the best artist he has ever seen was Jacques Brel (intetview in the german music magazine Fono Forum)
Merci Beth !!! I wish this Jacquot should be one of my close friends !! He sings love like if that was a battle !! Tremendous !!! The one and only best Francophone singer.❤❤❤❤❤❤😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Did you know your fav was a born a Flemish Lion, I bet you dont, look up his song, named Marieke, a surprise awaits you when he sings in his mother tongue which is not French!!!!! You should watch these with English subs, to understand why I said this ....
I only learned about him through David Bowie's cover on his Pinups album. Of course, after that I did sort of spread my interest in music all over, and I still have no idea what so many French artists make sound so good! Still, this is one of my ever favorite songs in Bowie's version! :)
Do NOT listen to French accordion-based music, you may never get out unchanged! There, you are warned...
Such a PITY you do not have the translation of the lyrics. You missed 80% of this performance :-(
Que canción tan melancólica. Con ese acento francés y un final épico bien Beth 👏👏🍀🍀
Could you react to "Mon vieux" (Daniel Guichard) with subtitles in english please?
I discover so beautiful perfomances through the spectrum of my interest for the vocal world. And through your selection, this beautiful perfomances reach out to me and that's really special! I am french and I love, love music. I dig a lot, especially old french music, but I never find out about this perfomance. I want to dig more in the art of Jacques Brel, I barely now him and what he did, even if I am surrounded by his influance in my country.
In the port of Amsterdam
There are sailors who sing
Of the dreams that haunt them
Off the coast of Amsterdam
In the port of Amsterdam
There are sailors who sleep
Like flags
Along the gloomy banks
In the port of Amsterdam
There are sailors who die
Full of beer and drama
At the first light
But in the port of Amsterdam
There are sailors who are born
In the thick heat
Of the ocean languors
In the port of Amsterdam
There are sailors who eat
On tablecloths too white
Dripping fish
They show you their teeth
To bite into fortune
To unhook the moon
To devour the shrouds
And it smells of cod
Right to the heart of the chips
That their big hands invite
To come back for more, then they get up laughing
In a stormy noise
They zip up their flies and go out belching
In the port of Amsterdam
There are sailors who dance
Rubbing their bellies
On the bellies of the women
And they turn and they dance
Like spit suns
In the torn sound
Of a rancid accordion
They twist their necks
To better hear themselves laugh
Until all of a sudden the accordion expires
Then with a solemn gesture, then with a proud look
They bring back their bastards to the full light
In the port of Amsterdam
There are sailors who drink
And who drink and drink again
And who drink again
They drink to the health
Of the whores of Amsterdam
Of Hamburg or elsewhere
Finally they drink to the ladies
Who give them their pretty bodies
Who give them their virtue
For a piece of gold
And when they have drunk well
They plant their noses in the sky
They blow their noses in the stars
They piss like I cry
On the unfaithful women
In the port of Amsterdam
In the port of Amsterdam
I remember JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS