You can watch while I'm scrubbin' these floors And I'm scrubbin' the floors you're gawking Maybe once you tip me and it makes you swell In this crummy Southern town, in this old hotel But you'll never to who you're talkin' No, you couldn't guess to who you're talkin'
Then one night, a scream in the night And you'll wonder who could that have And you see me kinda grinnin' while I'm And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
I'll tell you, there's a ship, the Freighter With a on its masthead will be comin' in
You gentlemen can say, "Hey gal, them floors" "Get upstairs, wrong with you, earn your keep here" You toss me tips and look out to the ships But I'm your heads as I'm making the beds 'Cause there's nobody sleep here Tonight, nobody's gonna here, honey Nobody,
Then one night a scream 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?"
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 smile off face 'Cause every in town is a flat one whole freakin' place will be down to the ground Only this cheap hotel standing up safe and And you yell, "Why do they spare one?" Yes, that's what you say, "Why do spare that one?"
All the through, through the noise and to-do You wonder, "Who is that person that 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 cheer the air
By noontime the is a-swarmin' with men Comin' out from the freighter move in the shadows 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 clock and so still by the You can hear a miles 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