You gentlemen can while I'm scrubbin' the floor And I'm the floor while you're gawking And once you tipped me and it made you feel swell In a ratty waterfront in this ratty-old
But you'll never 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 while I'm scrubbin' And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
And the ship, a Freighter a skull on its masthead will be comin' in
Then you gentlemen can say, "Hey girl, finish the Get upstairs, make the beds, earn your here You me your 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 sleep here
Then, night, there's a bang in the night 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 wipe off the from your face Every in town is a flat one whole stinking place will be down to the ground Only cheap hotel standin' up safe and sound
And you ask, "Why did they spare one?" And you ask, "Why did they spare one?"
All the night through, the noise and to-do You wonder, who's the person up there? Then you see me out in the mornin' Lookin' nice with a ribbon in my
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 them 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 of death say, "Right now Then they'll pile up the And I'll say, "That'll ya"
And the The Black out to sea And on it is me