You people can while I'm scrubbin' these floors And I'm scrubbin' the floors while you're once you tip me and it makes you feel swell In this crummy Southern town, in crummy old hotel But you'll guess to who you're talkin' No, you couldn't ever guess to who you're
Then one night, there's a in the night And you'll wonder who could that 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, finish floors" "Get upstairs, wrong with you, earn your keep here" You toss me your tips and out to the ships But I'm counting your heads as I'm making the 'Cause there's gonna sleep here Tonight, gonna sleep here, honey Nobody,
one night there's 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 Freighter Turns around in the harbor, shootin' guns her bow
Now you gentlemen can wipe off smile off your face every building in town is a flat one This whole freakin' place will be down to the Only this hotel standing up safe and sound And you yell, "Why do spare that one?" Yes, that's you say, "Why do they spare that one?"
All the night through, the noise and to-do You wonder, "Who is person that lives up there?" And you see me stepping out in the Looking nice with a ribbon in my
And the ship, the Freighter a flag up its masthead and a cheer rings the air
By noontime the dock is a-swarmin' men Comin' out the ghostly freighter They move in the shadows no one can see And they're chainin' up people and they're em to me Askin' me, "Kill now or later?" Askin' me, "Kill now or later?"
Noon by the clock and so still by the You can hear a foghorn away And in quiet of death, I'll say "Right now, now"
Then they'll pile up the And I'll say, "That'll ya" And the ship, the Black out to sea and on it is me