You gentlemen can while I'm scrubbin' the floor And I'm the floor while you're gawking And maybe once you me and it made you feel swell In a ratty waterfront in this ratty-old
But never know to who you're talkin' You never know to who talkin'
Suddenly, one night, there's a 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 Black With a skull on its masthead will be in
Then you gentlemen can say, "Hey girl, the floors Get upstairs, make the beds, earn keep here You toss me your tips and out at the ships
But I'm your heads While I make up the 'Cuz there's nobody gonna 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 starin' out the And you say, "What's she got to at now?"
And the ship, the Freighter Turns around in the Shootin' guns the bow
Then you can wipe off the laugh from your face Every building in is a flat one Your whole stinking will be down to the ground Only cheap hotel standin' up safe and sound
And you ask, "Why did spare that one?" And you ask, "Why did they spare one?"
All the night through, with the noise and You wonder, who's the lives up there? you see me steppin' 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 noontime the Is a' with men Comin' off of ghostly freighter
And movin' in the shadows no one can see And they're up people And them to me
me "Kill now or later?" me "Kill now, or later?"
Noon by the And so on the dock You can hear the foghorn miles
In quiet of death say, "Right now Then they'll pile up the And I'll say, "That'll ya"
And the The Freighter out to sea And on it is me