ossory
"Built on Sticks" is a fast Dutch folk-rock stomp about the city Amsterdam actually is. Two singers trade the facts line for line: a dam and a toll in 1275, thirteen thousand piles under the palace, houses taxed by their width, the first share ever traded, and twelve thousand bicycles a year dredged from the canals, with one quiet verse for the word Mokum.
Built On Sticks
Style
Fast Dutch folk-rock stomp at 168 BPM in 4/4, driven by button accordion, tremolo mandolin, distorted electric guitar and four-on-the-floor percussion with clogs and boot-stomp, featuring a bright female alto and warm gravelly male baritone trading lines in unhidden Dutch-accented English over huge pub-crowd gang-vocal choruses.