You people can watch while I'm 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 you'll never guess to who talkin' No, you couldn't ever to who you're talkin'
Then one night, there's a scream in the And you'll wonder who could that been And you see me kinda while I'm scrubbin' And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
I'll tell you, there's a ship, the Black With a skull on its masthead will be in
You gentlemen can say, "Hey gal, finish floors" "Get upstairs, what's wrong with you, your keep here" You toss me your tips and out to the ships But I'm your heads as I'm making the beds there's nobody gonna sleep here Tonight, nobody's sleep 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 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 freakin' place will be down to the ground Only this cheap hotel up safe and sound And you yell, "Why do they spare one?" Yes, what you say, "Why do they spare that one?"
All the through, through the noise and to-do You wonder, "Who is that person lives up there?" And you see me stepping out in the Looking nice a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Black Runs a flag up its and a cheer rings the air
By noontime the dock is with men Comin' out the ghostly freighter They in the shadows where no one can see And they're chainin' up people and they're em to me me, "Kill them now or later?" Askin' me, "Kill now or later?"
Noon by the and so still by the dock You can hear a foghorn miles And in quiet of death, I'll say "Right now, now"
Then pile up the bodies And I'll say, "That'll ya" And the ship, the Black out to sea and on it is me