You can watch while 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 crummy Southern town, in this crummy old 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 that have been And you see me kinda grinnin' I'm scrubbin' 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 gentlemen can say, "Hey gal, them floors" "Get upstairs, what's wrong you, earn your keep here" You toss me your tips and look out to the But I'm counting your heads as I'm the beds 'Cause nobody gonna sleep here Tonight, nobody's sleep here, honey Nobody,
Then one there's a scream in the night And you say, "Who's kicking 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 in the harbor, shootin' guns from her bow
Now you gentlemen can wipe off that smile off your 'Cause every in town is a flat one This whole freakin' will be down to the ground Only this cheap standing up safe and sound And you yell, "Why do they that one?" Yes, that's what you say, "Why do they spare one?"
All the night through, the noise and to-do You wonder, "Who is person that lives up there?" And you see me stepping out in the nice with a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Freighter Runs a up its masthead and a cheer rings the air
By the dock is a-swarmin' with men Comin' out from the freighter They move in the where no one can see And they're up people and they're bringin' 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 quiet of death, say "Right now, now"
they'll pile up the bodies And I'll say, "That'll ya" And the ship, the Freighter out to sea and on it is me