You gentlemen can while I'm scrubbin' the floor And I'm the floor while you're gawking And once you tipped me and it made you feel swell In a ratty in this ratty-old hotel
But you'll never know to who you're You never to who you're talkin'
Suddenly, one night, there's a scream in the And you yelled, "What the could that have been?" And you see me kinda grinnin' I'm scrubbin' And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
And the ship, a Black With a skull on its masthead will be in
Then you gentlemen can say, "Hey girl, the floors Get upstairs, make the beds, earn your keep You toss me your tips and out at the ships
But I'm your heads I make up the beds 'Cuz there's nobody gonna sleep Tonight, none of you will sleep
Then, night, there's a bang 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 Black Turns 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 stinking place will be down to the ground Only cheap hotel standin' up safe and sound
And you ask, "Why did they that one?" And you ask, "Why did spare that one?"
All the night through, with the noise and You wonder, who's the person up there? Then you see me steppin' out in the nice with a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Black Runs the flag up its And a rings the air
By the dock Is a' swarmin' men Comin' off of ghostly freighter
And they're in the shadows no one can see And chainin' up people And them to me
me "Kill now or later?" me "Kill now, or later?"
by the clock And so on the dock You can the foghorn miles away
In that of death say, "Right now Then they'll pile up the And I'll say, "That'll ya"
And the The Black out to sea And on it is me