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Jacques Brel
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“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.
It is a slightly modified version of the traditional English folk song Greensleeves.
Brel never recorded this for a studio album, and his only version was released on the live album Enregistrement Public à l’Olympia 1964’‘. Despite this, it has been one of his most enduringly popular works http://www.last.fm/music/Jacques+Brel. It was one of the songs Mort Shuman translated into English for the Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris musical.
Brel worked on the song at his house overlooking the Mediterranean at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, the house he shared with Sylvie Rivet, a publicist for...
Read on...Song lines: ♪ In the port of Amsterdam ♫
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