You people can watch I'm scrubbin' these floors And I'm the floors while you're gawking Maybe once you tip me and it you feel swell In this Southern town, in this crummy old hotel But you'll never 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 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 Black a skull on its masthead will be comin' in
You gentlemen can say, "Hey gal, finish floors" "Get upstairs, what's with you, earn your keep here" You toss me your tips and out to the ships But I'm counting your as I'm making the beds 'Cause nobody gonna sleep here Tonight, nobody's sleep here, honey Nobody,
Then one night there's a in the night And you say, "Who's that 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 in the harbor, shootin' guns from her bow
Now you gentlemen can wipe off smile off your face every building in town is a flat one This whole freakin' place will be down to the Only this cheap standing up safe and sound And you yell, "Why do they spare 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 Looking nice with a ribbon in my
And the ship, the Freighter Runs a flag up its masthead and a cheer the air
By noontime the dock is with men Comin' out from the ghostly move in the shadows where no one can see And they're chainin' up people and they're 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 miles 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 Freighter out to sea and on it is me