You gentlemen can watch while I'm scrubbin' the And I'm scrubbin' the while you're 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 talkin'
Suddenly, one night, a scream in the night And you yelled, "What the hell could have been?" And you see me kinda grinnin' while I'm 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, the floors Get upstairs, make the beds, earn your here You toss me your tips and out at the ships
But I'm countin' your While I make up the 'Cuz there's nobody sleep here Tonight, none of you will here
Then, night, there's 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 around in the Shootin' from the bow
you gentlemen can wipe off the laugh from your face Every building in town is a one Your whole stinking place will be down to the Only cheap hotel standin' up safe and sound
And you ask, "Why did they spare one?" And you ask, "Why did spare that one?"
All the night through, with the and to-do You wonder, who's the person lives up Then you see me out in the mornin' nice with a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Black Runs the up its masthead And a cheer the air
By noontime the Is a' swarmin' men Comin' off of 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 on the dock You can hear the foghorn away
In that quiet of 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