You gentlemen can watch while I'm scrubbin' the And I'm scrubbin' the floor 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 know to who talkin' You never to who you're talkin'
Suddenly, one night, there's a 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 will be in
Then you can say, "Hey girl, finish the floors Get upstairs, make the beds, earn keep here You toss me your tips and out at the ships
But I'm countin' your While I up the beds 'Cuz nobody gonna sleep here Tonight, none of you will sleep
Then, night, there's a bang in the night And you yelled, "Who's kicking 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' guns the bow
Then you gentlemen can wipe off the laugh from face Every building in is a flat one Your whole stinking 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 they spare one?"
All the night through, the noise and to-do You wonder, who's the lives up there? Then you see me out in the mornin' Lookin' nice with a ribbon in my
And the ship, the Freighter Runs the flag up its And a cheer the air
By noontime the Is a' with men off of that ghostly freighter
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?"
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