You gentlemen can while I'm scrubbin' the floor And I'm scrubbin' the while you're gawking And maybe once you me and it made you feel swell In a ratty in this ratty-old 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 have been?" And you see me kinda grinnin' I'm scrubbin' And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
And the ship, a Black With a on its masthead will be comin' in
you gentlemen can say, "Hey girl, finish the floors Get upstairs, make the beds, earn keep here You toss me your and look out at the ships
But I'm your heads I make up the beds 'Cuz there's nobody sleep here Tonight, none of you will here
Then, that night, there's a bang in the And you yelled, "Who's that 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 around in the guns from the bow
Then you gentlemen can wipe off the from your face Every building in town is a one Your whole stinking place will be to the ground Only cheap hotel standin' up safe and sound
And you ask, "Why did spare 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? you see me steppin' out in the mornin' Lookin' nice a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Freighter Runs the up its masthead And a cheer the air
By the dock Is a' with men off of that ghostly freighter
And movin' 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?"
by the clock And so still on the You can hear the miles away
In quiet of death say, "Right now Then pile up the bodies And say, "That'll learn ya"
And the The Freighter out to sea And on it is me