You people can while 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 never guess to who talkin' No, you couldn't ever guess to who talkin'
one night, there's a scream in the night And you'll wonder who could that have And you see me kinda while I'm scrubbin' 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 you, earn your 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 gonna here, honey Nobody,
Then one night a scream 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?"
I'll tell you, a ship, the Black Freighter around in the harbor, shootin' guns from her bow
Now you gentlemen can wipe off that smile off your every building in town is a flat one This whole place will be down to the ground Only this cheap hotel standing up safe and And you yell, "Why do they 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 Looking with a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Freighter 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 shadows no one can see And they're up people and they're bringin' em to me Askin' me, "Kill now or later?" Askin' me, "Kill now or later?"
Noon by the clock and so still by the You can a foghorn miles away And in that of death, I'll say "Right now, now"
they'll pile up the bodies And I'll say, "That'll ya" And the ship, the Black out to sea and on it is me