You can watch while I'm scrubbin' the floor And I'm scrubbin' the floor while gawking And maybe you tipped me and it made you feel swell In a ratty waterfront in this hotel
But you'll never know to who you're You never know to who you're
Suddenly, one night, a scream 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 Black With a skull on its masthead be comin' in
Then you gentlemen can say, "Hey girl, finish the Get upstairs, make the beds, earn your keep You toss me your and look out at the ships
But I'm countin' heads I make up the beds 'Cuz there's gonna sleep here Tonight, none of you sleep here
Then, that night, there's a in the night And you yelled, "Who's kicking 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 Black Turns in the harbor guns from the bow
Then you gentlemen can wipe off the laugh your face Every building in town is a one whole stinking place will be down to the ground Only this cheap hotel standin' up and sound
And you ask, "Why did they that one?" And you ask, "Why did they spare one?"
All the through, with the noise and to-do You wonder, the person lives up there? Then you see me out in the mornin' Lookin' with a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Freighter the flag up its masthead And a rings the air
By the dock Is a' with men Comin' off of that ghostly
And they're movin' in the no one can see And they're 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 quiet of 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