You people can watch while I'm these floors And I'm scrubbin' the floors you're gawking Maybe you tip me and it makes you feel swell In this Southern town, in this crummy old hotel But you'll never guess to who you're No, you couldn't ever guess to who talkin'
one night, there's a scream in the night And you'll who could that have been And you see me kinda grinnin' while I'm And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
I'll you, there's a ship, the Black Freighter With a skull on its masthead will be in
You can say, "Hey gal, finish them floors" "Get upstairs, what's wrong with you, earn your here" You toss me tips and look out to the ships But I'm counting heads 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 kicking up a row?" And you see me starin' 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 'Cause every in town is a flat one This whole freakin' will be down to the ground Only this hotel standing up safe and sound And you yell, "Why do they spare one?" Yes, that's what you say, "Why do they that one?"
All the night through, the noise and to-do You wonder, "Who is that person lives up there?" And you see me out in the morning Looking with a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Freighter a flag up its masthead and a cheer 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 people and 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 away And in quiet of death, I'll say "Right now, now"
Then pile up the bodies And I'll say, "That'll ya" And the ship, the Black out to sea and on it is me