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