You people can watch while I'm these floors And I'm scrubbin' the floors while gawking once 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 you're
one night, there's a scream in the night And you'll who could that have been And you see me kinda grinnin' I'm scrubbin' And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
I'll tell you, there's a ship, the Freighter a skull on its masthead will be comin' in
You gentlemen can say, "Hey gal, them floors" "Get upstairs, what's wrong with you, earn keep here" You toss me tips and look out to the ships But I'm counting your as I'm making the beds 'Cause there's nobody gonna sleep Tonight, nobody's gonna sleep here, Nobody,
Then one night a scream in the night And you say, "Who's that 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, there's a ship, the 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 whole freakin' place will be down to the ground Only this cheap hotel standing up and sound And you yell, "Why do they that one?" Yes, that's what you say, "Why do they that one?"
All the through, through the noise and to-do You wonder, "Who is person that lives up there?" And you see me out in the morning Looking nice with a ribbon in my
And the ship, the Black a flag up its masthead and a cheer rings the air
By the dock is a-swarmin' with men Comin' out from the ghostly They move in the 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 clock and so by the dock You can hear a foghorn away And in that quiet of death, say "Right now, now"
they'll pile up the bodies And say, "That'll learn ya" And the ship, the Freighter out to sea and on it is me