You gentlemen can while I'm scrubbin' the floor And I'm scrubbin' the floor while you're And maybe once you tipped me and it made you swell In a ratty waterfront in this hotel
But you'll never know to who talkin' You know to who you're talkin'
Suddenly, one night, a scream in the night And you yelled, "What the hell could that been?" And you see me kinda while I'm scrubbin' And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
And the ship, a Freighter With a skull on its masthead be comin' in
you gentlemen can say, "Hey girl, finish the floors Get upstairs, the beds, earn your keep here You me your tips and look out at the ships
But I'm countin' heads I make up the beds 'Cuz there's nobody gonna here Tonight, none of you will sleep
Then, that night, a bang in the night And you yelled, "Who's kicking 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 around in the Shootin' from the bow
you gentlemen can wipe off the laugh from your face Every building in is a flat one Your whole place will be down to the ground Only this cheap hotel up safe and sound
And you ask, "Why did they spare one?" And you ask, "Why did spare that 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' 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 off of that ghostly freighter
And they're in the shadows no one can see And they're up people And them to me
me "Kill now or later?" me "Kill now, or later?"
by the clock And so still on the You can the foghorn miles 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