You can watch while I'm scrubbin' the floor And I'm scrubbin' the while you're gawking And once you tipped me and it made you feel swell In a ratty waterfront in this hotel
But never 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 that been?" And you see me kinda while I'm scrubbin' And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
And the ship, a Freighter With a skull on its will be comin' in
you gentlemen can say, "Hey girl, finish the floors Get upstairs, the beds, earn your 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 gonna sleep Tonight, none of you will sleep
Then, that night, there's a bang in the And you yelled, "Who's that 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 Freighter around in the harbor Shootin' from the bow
you gentlemen can wipe off the laugh from your face Every building in town is a one Your whole stinking will 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 noise and You wonder, who's the lives up there? Then you see me steppin' out in the Lookin' with a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Black Runs the up its masthead And a rings the air
By the dock Is a' with men Comin' off of that freighter
And they're 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 still on the You can the foghorn miles away
In that quiet of say, "Right now Then they'll pile up the And say, "That'll learn ya"
And the The Freighter out to sea And on it is me