CHORUS:
On the canals of Amsterdam
I have pledged my whole heart forever
Amsterdam fills my thoughts
As the most beautiful city in our country
All the people of Amsterdam
All the lights in the evening late on the square
No one could wish any better
Than to be someone from Amsterdam
There stands a house on the canal, in old Amsterdam
Where I visited my grandmother as a little boy of eight
Now in the room in the front sits a strange man
And the wonderful attic became an office
Only the trees dream, high above the traffic
And over the water there goes a boat just as before
CHORUS
I have traveled a lot and have seen the world
And I never got enough of travelling after that
But there stayed a strong desire somewhere in me
For the Dutch coast and the city on the Amstel and the IJ
CHORUS