You people can watch I'm scrubbin' these floors And I'm the floors while you're gawking Maybe you tip me and it makes you feel swell In this crummy 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, 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 a skull on its masthead will be comin' in
You can say, "Hey gal, finish them floors" "Get upstairs, what's wrong with you, your keep here" You toss me your tips and look out to the But I'm counting your heads as I'm making the there's nobody gonna sleep here Tonight, gonna sleep here, honey Nobody,
Then one there's a scream in the night And you say, "Who's kicking up a row?" And you see me kinda starin' out the And you say, "What's she got to at now?"
tell you, there's a ship, the Black Freighter Turns around in the harbor, shootin' from her bow
Now you gentlemen can wipe off that off your face 'Cause every building in town is a one This whole freakin' place will be down to the Only this cheap hotel standing up safe and And you yell, "Why do spare that one?" Yes, that's what you say, "Why do they spare one?"
All the through, through the noise and to-do You wonder, "Who is person that lives up there?" And you see me out in the morning nice with a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Black Runs a flag up its masthead and a rings the air
By noontime the is a-swarmin' with men out from the ghostly freighter They move in the where no one can see And chainin' up people and they're bringin' em to me Askin' me, "Kill now or later?" me, "Kill them now or later?"
Noon by the and so still by the dock You can hear a foghorn away 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