You people can watch while I'm scrubbin' floors And I'm scrubbin' the while you're gawking Maybe you tip me and it makes you feel swell In this crummy Southern town, in this old hotel But you'll never guess to who talkin' No, you ever guess to who you're talkin'
Then one night, there's a in the night And wonder who could that have been And you see me kinda 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, them floors" "Get upstairs, what's wrong with you, earn keep here" You toss me your tips and out to the ships But I'm counting your as I'm making the beds 'Cause there's nobody sleep here Tonight, gonna sleep here, honey Nobody,
Then one night there's a in the night And you say, "Who's that up a row?" And you see me kinda starin' out the And you say, "What's she got to at now?"
I'll tell you, there's a ship, the Freighter Turns around in the harbor, shootin' guns her bow
Now you gentlemen can wipe off smile off your face 'Cause building in town is a flat one This whole freakin' place be down to the ground Only this cheap hotel standing up safe and And you yell, "Why do they spare one?" Yes, that's what you say, "Why do they spare one?"
All the night through, through the noise and You wonder, "Who is that person lives up there?" And you see me stepping out in the Looking nice a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Freighter Runs a up its masthead and a cheer rings the air
By noontime the dock is with men Comin' out the ghostly freighter They in the shadows where no one can see And they're chainin' up and they're bringin' em to me Askin' me, "Kill now or later?" me, "Kill them now or later?"
Noon by the clock and so still by the You can hear a foghorn miles And in that of death, I'll say "Right now, now"
Then they'll up the bodies And say, "That'll learn ya" And the ship, the Freighter out to sea and on it is me