Aan de amsterdamse grachten [English translation]

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

• Artist:Wim Sonneveld