You can watch while I'm scrubbin' the floor And I'm scrubbin' the while you're gawking And maybe once you tipped me and it made you feel In a waterfront in this ratty-old hotel
But never know to who you're talkin' You never to who you're talkin'
Suddenly, one night, there's a in the night And you yelled, "What the hell could 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 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 toss me your tips and look out at the
But I'm countin' your I make up the beds 'Cuz there's nobody gonna sleep Tonight, none of you will sleep
Then, that night, there's a 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 Freighter around in the harbor Shootin' from the bow
Then you gentlemen can wipe off the from your face Every in town is a flat one Your whole stinking place will be down to the this cheap hotel standin' up safe and sound
And you ask, "Why did they spare one?" And you ask, "Why did they that one?"
All the through, with the noise and to-do You wonder, who's the lives up there? Then you see me out in the mornin' Lookin' nice a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Black the flag up its masthead And a rings the air
By noontime the Is a' swarmin' men Comin' off of that ghostly
And they're movin' in the no one can see And they're up people 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 I'll say, "That'll ya"
And the The Black out to sea And on it is me