You gentlemen can watch while I'm the floor And I'm the floor while you're gawking And maybe once you tipped me and it you feel swell In a ratty in this ratty-old hotel
But you'll never to who you're talkin' You know to who you're talkin'
Suddenly, one night, a scream in the night 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 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 your tips and out at the ships
But I'm countin' heads While I up the beds 'Cuz there's gonna sleep here Tonight, none of you sleep here
Then, that night, 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 Freighter Turns around in the Shootin' guns the bow
Then you gentlemen can wipe off the from your face building in town is a flat one Your whole stinking place will be down to the Only this cheap hotel standin' up safe and
And you ask, "Why did they that one?" And you ask, "Why did they spare one?"
All the night through, the noise and to-do You wonder, who's the person up there? Then you see me out in the mornin' nice with a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Black Runs the flag up its And a cheer the air
By the dock Is a' swarmin' men Comin' off of that freighter
And movin' 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 still on the You can hear the foghorn away
In quiet of death say, "Right now Then they'll pile up the And say, "That'll learn ya"
And the The Freighter out to sea And on it is me