You gentlemen can while I'm scrubbin' the floor And I'm scrubbin' the floor while you're And maybe you tipped me and it made you feel swell In a waterfront in this ratty-old hotel
But you'll never know to who talkin' You never know to who you're
Suddenly, one night, there's a in the night And you yelled, "What the hell could have 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 will be comin' in
Then you can say, "Hey girl, finish the floors Get upstairs, make the beds, your keep here You toss me your tips and look out at the
But I'm countin' your While I up the beds there's nobody gonna sleep here Tonight, none of you will here
Then, that night, there's a in the night And you yelled, "Who's that up a row?" And ya see me kinda 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 gentlemen can wipe off the from your face Every in town is a flat one Your whole place will be down to the ground Only this cheap hotel standin' up safe and
And you ask, "Why did they spare one?" And you ask, "Why did they spare one?"
All the night through, with the and to-do You wonder, who's the person up there? you see me steppin' out in the mornin' Lookin' nice with a in my hair
And the ship, the Black Runs the up its masthead And a cheer the air
By the dock Is a' swarmin' men Comin' off of that ghostly
And they're in the shadows no one can see And they're chainin' up And bringin' to me
me "Kill now or later?" me "Kill now, or later?"
Noon by the And so on the dock You can hear the foghorn miles
In that quiet of say, "Right now Then they'll up the bodies And I'll say, "That'll ya"
And the The Black out to sea And on it is me