You can watch while I'm scrubbin' the floor And I'm scrubbin' the floor while gawking And maybe once you tipped me and it made you feel In a ratty waterfront in this ratty-old
But you'll never know to who talkin' You never know to who talkin'
Suddenly, one night, there's a scream in the 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
Then you gentlemen can say, "Hey girl, the floors Get upstairs, make the beds, earn keep here You toss me your tips and look out at the
But I'm your heads While I make up the 'Cuz there's nobody sleep here Tonight, none of you sleep here
Then, that night, a bang in the night And you yelled, "Who's that up a row?" And ya see me kinda out the window And you say, "What's she got to at now?"
And the ship, the Black Turns in the harbor Shootin' from the bow
Then you gentlemen can wipe off the from your face Every building in town is a one whole stinking place will be down to the ground Only this cheap hotel standin' up safe and
And you ask, "Why did they that one?" And you ask, "Why did spare 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 a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Black the flag up its masthead And a rings the air
By the dock Is a' with men Comin' off of that freighter
And movin' 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?"
by the clock And so on the dock 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 Freighter out to sea And on it is me