You gentlemen can watch while I'm scrubbin' the And I'm scrubbin' the floor while gawking And once you tipped me and it made you feel swell In a waterfront in this ratty-old hotel
But you'll know to who you're talkin' You never know to who you're
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
Then you gentlemen can say, "Hey girl, finish the Get upstairs, the beds, earn your keep here You toss me tips and look out at the ships
But I'm countin' heads While I up the beds 'Cuz there's gonna sleep here Tonight, none of you will here
Then, that night, a bang 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 Black Turns around in the Shootin' guns the bow
Then you gentlemen can off the laugh from your face building in town 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 spare one?"
All the night through, with the and to-do You wonder, the person lives up there? you see me steppin' out in the mornin' Lookin' with a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Freighter the flag 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 the foghorn miles away
In that quiet of say, "Right now Then pile up the bodies And I'll say, "That'll ya"
And the The Freighter out to sea And on it is me