You gentlemen can watch while I'm scrubbin' the And I'm scrubbin' the while you're gawking And once you tipped me and it made you feel swell In a ratty waterfront in this hotel
But you'll never to who you're talkin' You never know to who you're
Suddenly, one night, there's a in the night And you yelled, "What the hell could that been?" And you see me grinnin' while I'm scrubbin' And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
And the ship, a Freighter a skull on its masthead will be comin' in
Then you can say, "Hey girl, finish the floors Get upstairs, make the beds, earn your here You toss me tips and look out at the ships
But I'm your heads While I up the beds 'Cuz there's nobody sleep here Tonight, none of you sleep here
Then, night, there's a bang in the night And you yelled, "Who's kicking up a row?" And ya see me kinda starin' out the And you say, "What's she got to at now?"
And the ship, the Black around in the harbor Shootin' guns the bow
Then you gentlemen can wipe off the laugh your face building in town is a flat one Your whole stinking place will be to the ground Only cheap hotel standin' up safe and sound
And you ask, "Why did they that one?" And you ask, "Why did they that one?"
All the through, with the noise and to-do You wonder, the person lives up there? Then you see me out in the mornin' nice with a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Freighter the flag up its masthead And a rings the air
By noontime the Is a' with men Comin' off of ghostly freighter
And movin' in the shadows no one can see And they're up people And bringin' to me
me "Kill now or later?" me "Kill now, or later?"
Noon by the And so still on the You can the foghorn miles away
In that of death 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