You people can watch while I'm these floors And I'm scrubbin' the while you're gawking Maybe once you tip me and it makes you feel In this crummy Southern town, in this old hotel But you'll never to who you're talkin' No, you couldn't ever guess to who you're
one night, there's a scream in the night And you'll wonder who could that been And you see me kinda grinnin' while I'm And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
tell you, there's a ship, the Black Freighter With a on its masthead will be comin' in
You can say, "Hey gal, finish 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 heads as I'm making the beds there's nobody gonna sleep here Tonight, nobody's sleep here, honey Nobody,
Then one night there's a scream in the 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' from her bow
Now you gentlemen can wipe off that smile off face 'Cause every building in is a flat one This freakin' place will be down to the ground Only this cheap 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, through the noise and You wonder, "Who is that person that up there?" And you see me stepping out in the nice with 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 a-swarmin' men Comin' out from the freighter They move in the where no one can see And chainin' up people and they're bringin' em to me me, "Kill them now or later?" Askin' me, "Kill now or later?"
by the clock and so still by the dock You can hear a miles away And in quiet of death, I'll say "Right now, now"
Then they'll up the bodies And I'll say, "That'll ya" And the ship, the Freighter out to sea and on it is me