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"'t Is Stil in Amsterdam" by Ramses Shaffy "A Bar In Amsterdam" by Katzenjammer "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam" by Ted Dicks and Myles Rudge "Aan de Amsterdamse grachten", lyrics by Pieter Goemans in 1949, composed by Dick Schallies.
Aan de Amsterdamse grachten (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈaːn də ʔɑmstərˌdɑmsə ˈɣrɑxtə(n)]; "At the Amsterdam canals") is a Dutch song by Pieter Goemans. It was written in 1949 but not recorded until 1956, and many times more since then.
"The Dutchman" is a song written by Michael Peter Smith in 1968 and popularized by Liam Clancy, Brendan Grace and Steve Goodman. At the time Smith wrote the song, he had never visited the Netherlands. The song is about an elderly couple living in Amsterdam, Margaret and the title character.
The following is a list of songs about cities.It is not exhaustive. Cities are a major topic for popular songs. [1] [2] Music journalist Nick Coleman said that apart from love, "pop is better on cities than anything else."
"Geef mij maar Amsterdam" ("I prefer Amsterdam") is a 1955 song about Amsterdam by Dutch singer Johnny Jordaan. The text is by Pi Veriss , and the music is written by Harry de Groot. A hit song when it was first released, it is one of the songs Amsterdammers identify with most.
Peter Van Wood was born in 1927 as Pieter van Houten in The Hague. He began playing guitar when he was fourteen years old, and studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. At the same time he started listening to great jazz guitar players and began playing in small groups in and around the Netherlands.
The Amsterdam drunks and the other damn drunks. The California Drinking Song features lines very similar to the second verses: And the Souse family is the best family That ever came over from Old Germany. There's the Highland Dutch, the Lowland Dutch; The Rotterdam Dutch and the Irish.
"Young Folks" is the first single from Swedish band Peter Bjorn and John's third album, Writer's Block (2006). The single features Victoria Bergsman as a guest vocalist. The song received generally positive reviews from critics and performed well in the record charts, reaching the top 40 in Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.