You can watch while I'm scrubbin' these floors And I'm scrubbin' the floors while gawking Maybe once you tip me and it makes you feel In this crummy Southern town, in this old hotel But never guess to who you're talkin' No, you couldn't ever to who you're talkin'
Then one night, there's a in the night And you'll wonder who could have been And you see me grinnin' while I'm scrubbin' And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
I'll tell you, 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 with you, earn keep here" You toss me your tips and out to the ships But I'm counting your heads as I'm the beds '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 kicking up a row?" And you see me kinda out the window And you say, "What's she got to at now?"
I'll you, there's a ship, the Black Freighter Turns around in the harbor, guns from her bow
Now you gentlemen can off that smile off your face 'Cause every in town is a flat one This whole freakin' will be down to the ground Only this cheap hotel standing up and sound And you yell, "Why do spare 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 out in the morning 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 dock is a-swarmin' men out from the ghostly freighter They 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 clock and so still by the You can hear a miles away And in that quiet of death, say "Right now, now"
Then they'll up the bodies And I'll say, "That'll ya" And the ship, the Black out to sea and on it is me