You people can watch while I'm scrubbin' floors And I'm scrubbin' the floors while you're once you tip me and it makes you feel swell In this Southern town, in this crummy old hotel But you'll never to who you're 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 grinnin' while I'm 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, finish floors" "Get upstairs, what's wrong with you, your keep here" You toss me your and look out to the ships But I'm your heads as I'm making the beds there's nobody gonna sleep here Tonight, gonna sleep here, honey Nobody,
one night there's 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, there's a ship, the Black around in the harbor, shootin' guns from her bow
Now you gentlemen can wipe off smile off your face 'Cause every building in is a flat one This whole freakin' place will be down to the Only this cheap hotel standing up safe and And you yell, "Why do they spare one?" Yes, that's you say, "Why do they spare that one?"
All the through, through the noise and to-do You wonder, "Who is that person that up there?" And you see me out in the morning nice with a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Black Runs a up its masthead and a cheer rings the air
By noontime the dock is with men Comin' out from the ghostly They move in the where no one can see And they're up people and they're bringin' em to me me, "Kill them now or later?" Askin' me, "Kill now or later?"
by the clock and so still by the dock You can hear a foghorn miles And in that of death, I'll say "Right now, now"
Then pile up the bodies And say, "That'll learn ya" And the ship, the Black out to sea and on it is me