![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Schallies denies rumors that Enrico Neckheim was responsible for the music. It wasn’t supplied with sheet music and recorded until 1956, when an arrangement was written by pianist Dick Schallies (then a member of the Metropole Orkest) since (Schallies explained) Goemans couldn’t write music. Goemans was inspired to write the song in 1949 while walking across the bridge where the Prinsengracht and the Leidsegracht intersect. A transitional verse suggests that the trees, high above traffic, and the boats on the water are unchanged.Īccording to the refrain, the speaker has given his heart to the Amsterdam canals Amsterdam fills his thoughts, and nothing could be better than to be an Amsterdammer. The second explains that after having traveled widely the speaker still longs to return to the city “on the Amstel and the IJ”. The first verse recounts a childhood experience in the house of the grandparents, a house now occupied by other people and partly converted to office space. ![]()
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