You gentlemen can watch I'm scrubbin' the floor And I'm scrubbin' the floor while gawking And maybe you tipped me and it made you feel swell In a ratty waterfront in this ratty-old
But never know to who you're talkin' You never know to who talkin'
Suddenly, one night, a scream in the night And you yelled, "What the hell could have 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
Then you gentlemen can say, "Hey girl, the floors Get upstairs, make the beds, earn your keep You me your tips and look out at the ships
But I'm countin' heads While I make up the 'Cuz nobody gonna sleep here Tonight, none of you will here
Then, that night, there's a in the night And you yelled, "Who's kicking up a row?" And ya see me kinda starin' out the And you say, "What's she got to at now?"
And the ship, the Freighter Turns in the harbor Shootin' guns the bow
Then you can wipe off the laugh from your face Every building in town is a one Your whole stinking place be down to the ground Only this cheap standin' up safe and sound
And you ask, "Why did spare that one?" And you ask, "Why did they spare one?"
All the through, with 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 rings the air
By noontime the Is a' swarmin' men Comin' off of that freighter
And they're in the shadows no one can see And they're up people And bringin' to me
me "Kill now or later?" me "Kill now, or later?"
Noon by the And so on the dock 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