You can watch while I'm scrubbin' the floor And I'm the floor while you're gawking And maybe you tipped me and it made you feel swell In a ratty waterfront in ratty-old hotel
But you'll never know to who you're You never to who you're talkin'
Suddenly, one night, a scream in the night 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 skull on its masthead will be in
Then you gentlemen can say, "Hey girl, finish the Get upstairs, make the beds, earn keep here You toss me your and look out at the ships
But I'm your heads While I make up the 'Cuz there's gonna sleep here Tonight, none of you will sleep
Then, that night, 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 Freighter around in the harbor Shootin' guns the bow
Then you gentlemen can wipe off the laugh from face building in town is a flat one Your whole stinking place be down to the ground Only this cheap hotel up safe and sound
And you ask, "Why did spare that one?" And you ask, "Why did spare that one?"
All the night through, with the noise and You wonder, who's the lives up there? Then you see me out in the mornin' Lookin' nice with a in my hair
And the ship, the Freighter the flag up its masthead And a rings the air
By noontime the Is a' swarmin' men Comin' off of that freighter
And they're movin' in the no one can see And chainin' up people And them to me
me "Kill now or later?" me "Kill now, or later?"
Noon by the 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