You gentlemen can watch while I'm scrubbin' the And I'm scrubbin' the floor while gawking And maybe once you me and it made you feel swell In a waterfront in this ratty-old hotel
But you'll never know to who you're 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' 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 gentlemen can say, "Hey girl, the floors Get upstairs, make the beds, earn keep here You toss me tips and look out at the ships
But I'm countin' heads I make up the beds 'Cuz there's nobody gonna sleep Tonight, none of you will sleep
Then, that night, a bang 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 around in the harbor Shootin' from the bow
Then you can wipe off the laugh from your face Every building in 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 that one?"
All the through, with the noise and to-do You wonder, the person lives up there? you see me steppin' out in the mornin' Lookin' nice with a ribbon in my
And the ship, the Black Runs the flag up its And a rings the air
By noontime the Is a' swarmin' men Comin' off of that ghostly
And they're in the shadows no one can see And chainin' 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 hear the miles away
In that of death say, "Right now Then pile up the bodies And I'll say, "That'll ya"
And the The Freighter out to sea And on it is me