You gentlemen can watch I'm scrubbin' the floor And I'm scrubbin' the floor while gawking And maybe once you tipped me and it made you swell In a ratty waterfront in this hotel
But you'll never know to who you're You never to who you're talkin'
Suddenly, one night, a scream in the night And you yelled, "What the could that 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, make the beds, your keep here You toss me your tips and out at the ships
But I'm countin' heads I make up the beds 'Cuz there's nobody gonna sleep Tonight, of you will sleep here
Then, that night, there's a bang in the 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 Black Turns around in the Shootin' from the bow
Then you gentlemen can off the laugh from your face Every building in is a flat one Your whole stinking place be down to the ground Only this cheap hotel up safe and sound
And you ask, "Why did they spare one?" And you ask, "Why did they that 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 in my hair
And the ship, the Freighter Runs the flag up its And a rings the air
By the dock Is a' swarmin' men off of that ghostly freighter
And they're movin' in the no one can see And chainin' up people And bringin' to me
me "Kill now or later?" me "Kill now, or later?"
Noon by the And so still on the You can the foghorn miles away
In that 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