"A Windmill In Old Amsterdam" is a 1965 novelty song written by Ted Dicks and Myles Rudge.
The song, about a mouse that wears clogs, and arranged in waltz time, was notably recorded by Ronnie Hilton in 1965 and issued on the His Master's Voice label.
The regular writing team of Dicks and Rudge also wrote novelty songs for Bernard Cribbins.
[3] The song's composers were granted an Ivor Novello Award in 1966 for the Year's Outstanding Novelty Composition.
[4] Dutch TV personality and crooner Rudi Carrell hastened to release a Dutch translation of the song, titled "Een Muis In Een Molen In Mooi Amsterdam", which was released the same year[5] "with astonishing results", according to Billboard.