You people can watch while I'm these floors And I'm scrubbin' the while you're gawking once you tip me and it makes you feel swell In this crummy Southern town, in crummy old hotel But you'll never guess to who talkin' No, you couldn't ever to who you're talkin'
one night, there's a scream in the night And you'll wonder who could that have And you see me grinnin' while I'm scrubbin' And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
I'll tell you, a ship, the Black Freighter With a skull on its will be comin' in
You gentlemen can say, "Hey gal, finish floors" "Get upstairs, what's wrong you, earn your keep here" You toss me tips and look out to the ships But I'm your heads as I'm making the beds 'Cause nobody gonna sleep here Tonight, nobody's sleep here, honey Nobody,
Then one there's a scream in the night And you say, "Who's kicking up a row?" And you see me starin' out the window And you say, "What's she got to at now?"
I'll tell you, there's a ship, the Black Turns around in the harbor, shootin' guns her bow
Now you gentlemen can wipe off that smile off face 'Cause building in town is a flat one This whole freakin' will be down to the ground this cheap hotel standing up safe and sound And you yell, "Why do they that one?" Yes, what you say, "Why do they spare that one?"
All the through, through the noise and to-do You wonder, "Who is that person lives up there?" And you see me out in the morning Looking nice with a in my hair
And the ship, the Black a flag up its masthead and a cheer rings the air
By noontime the is a-swarmin' with men Comin' out from the ghostly They in the shadows where no one can see And they're chainin' up people and bringin' em to me Askin' me, "Kill now or later?" me, "Kill them now or later?"
Noon by the clock and so by the dock You can hear a foghorn away And in that of death, I'll say "Right now, now"
Then they'll pile up the And say, "That'll learn ya" And the ship, the Freighter out to sea and on it is me