You gentlemen can while I'm scrubbin' the floor And I'm scrubbin' the while you're gawking And once you tipped me and it made you feel swell In a ratty in this ratty-old hotel
But never know to who you're talkin' You never 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 grinnin' while I'm And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
And the ship, a Freighter With a skull on its 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 tips and out at the ships
But I'm countin' your While I make up the 'Cuz there's gonna sleep here Tonight, none of you will sleep
Then, night, there's a bang in the night And you yelled, "Who's that 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 Turns in the harbor Shootin' guns the bow
Then you gentlemen can wipe off the laugh your face Every in town is a flat one Your whole stinking place 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? you see me steppin' out in the mornin' Lookin' with a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Black Runs the up its masthead And a cheer the air
By noontime the Is a' swarmin' men off of that ghostly freighter
And they're 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 that quiet of say, "Right now Then pile up the bodies And I'll say, "That'll ya"
And the The Black out to sea And on it is me