You gentlemen can while I'm scrubbin' the floor And I'm the floor while you're gawking And maybe once you me and it made you feel swell In a ratty in this ratty-old hotel
But you'll know to who you're talkin' You never to who you're talkin'
Suddenly, one night, there's a in the night And you yelled, "What the hell could that been?" And you see me kinda grinnin' while I'm And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
And the ship, a Black With a skull on its masthead be comin' in
Then you can say, "Hey girl, finish the floors Get upstairs, make the beds, earn keep here You me your tips and look out at the ships
But I'm countin' your I make up the beds 'Cuz there's nobody gonna sleep Tonight, none of you will sleep
Then, that night, there's a in the night And you yelled, "Who's that up a row?" And ya see me starin' out the window And you say, "What's she got to at now?"
And the ship, the Freighter around in the harbor Shootin' guns the bow
Then you can wipe off the laugh from your face Every in town is a flat one Your whole stinking place be down to the ground Only this hotel standin' up safe and sound
And you ask, "Why did spare that one?" And you ask, "Why did they spare one?"
All the night through, with the noise and You wonder, who's the lives up there? you see me steppin' out in the mornin' Lookin' nice a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Freighter Runs the up its masthead And a cheer the air
By noontime the Is a' swarmin' men Comin' off of that ghostly
And they're movin' in the no one can see And they're chainin' up And them to me
me "Kill now or later?" me "Kill now, or later?"
by the clock And so still on the You can hear the foghorn away
In that quiet of say, "Right now Then they'll pile up the And say, "That'll learn ya"
And the The Black out to sea And on it is me