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 feel In this crummy town, in this crummy old hotel But you'll guess to who you're talkin' No, you couldn't ever guess to who you're
Then one night, there's a scream in the 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 you, there's a ship, the Black Freighter With a skull on its will be comin' in
You can say, "Hey gal, finish them floors" "Get upstairs, what's wrong you, earn your keep here" You toss me your and look out to the ships But I'm counting your heads as I'm making the 'Cause nobody gonna sleep here Tonight, gonna sleep here, honey Nobody,
one night there's a scream in the night 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, a ship, the Black Freighter Turns around in the harbor, shootin' from her bow
Now you can wipe off that smile off your face 'Cause every building in 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 they that one?"
All the night through, the noise and to-do You wonder, "Who is that that lives up there?" And you see me out in the morning Looking nice a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Black a flag up its masthead and a cheer rings the air
By noontime the dock is a-swarmin' men Comin' out the ghostly freighter They move in the shadows no one can see And they're chainin' up people and bringin' em to me Askin' me, "Kill now or later?" me, "Kill them now or later?"
Noon by the clock and so by the dock You can a foghorn miles away And in that of death, I'll say "Right now, now"
they'll pile up the bodies And say, "That'll learn ya" And the ship, the Black out to sea and on it is me