You gentlemen can while I'm scrubbin' the floor And I'm scrubbin' the floor while 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 scream in the And you yelled, "What the could that have been?" And you see me kinda grinnin' while I'm And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
And the ship, a Black With a on its masthead will be comin' in
you gentlemen can say, "Hey girl, finish the floors Get upstairs, make the beds, earn your keep You toss me your tips and out at the ships
But I'm countin' your While I make up the 'Cuz nobody 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 out the window And you say, "What's she got to at now?"
And the ship, the Black Turns in the harbor Shootin' guns the bow
Then you can wipe off the laugh from your face building in town is a flat one Your whole stinking place 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, with the and to-do You wonder, who's the person up there? you see me steppin' out in the mornin' Lookin' nice with a in my hair
And the ship, the Black Runs the flag up its And a rings the air
By the dock Is a' with men Comin' off of that ghostly
And they're 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 still on the You can hear the foghorn miles
In quiet of death say, "Right now Then they'll pile up the And say, "That'll learn ya"
And the The Black out to sea And on it is me