You people can watch while I'm scrubbin' floors And I'm scrubbin' the floors while you're Maybe once you tip me and it you feel swell In crummy Southern town, in this crummy old hotel But you'll guess to who you're talkin' No, you ever guess to who you're talkin'
Then one night, there's a scream in the And you'll wonder who could have been And you see me kinda grinnin' I'm scrubbin' And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
I'll tell you, there's a ship, the Black a skull on its masthead will be comin' in
You gentlemen can say, "Hey gal, them floors" "Get upstairs, what's wrong with you, your keep here" You me your tips and look out to the ships But I'm counting your heads as I'm the beds there's nobody gonna sleep here Tonight, nobody's gonna sleep here, Nobody,
Then one night a scream in the night And you say, "Who's that 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, guns from her bow
Now you gentlemen can off that smile off your face 'Cause every in town is a flat one whole freakin' place will be down to the ground Only this hotel standing up safe and sound And you yell, "Why do spare that one?" Yes, that's what you say, "Why do they spare one?"
All the night through, through the and to-do You wonder, "Who is that that lives up there?" And you see me out in the morning Looking nice a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Freighter Runs a flag up its and a cheer rings the air
By the dock is a-swarmin' with men Comin' out from the ghostly They move in the shadows no one can see And they're chainin' up and they're bringin' em to me me, "Kill them now or later?" Askin' me, "Kill now or later?"
Noon by the clock and so still by the You can hear a miles away And in that of death, I'll say "Right now, now"
they'll pile up the bodies And I'll say, "That'll ya" And the ship, the Freighter out to sea and on it is me