You people can watch while I'm these floors And I'm scrubbin' the floors while you're Maybe once you tip me and it makes you swell In this crummy Southern town, in this crummy old But you'll never to who you're talkin' No, you couldn't ever guess to who you're
one night, there's a scream in the night And you'll wonder who that have been And you see me grinnin' while I'm scrubbin' And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
tell you, there's a ship, the Black Freighter With a on its masthead will be comin' in
You can say, "Hey gal, finish them floors" "Get upstairs, wrong with you, earn your keep here" You toss me your and look out to the ships But I'm counting your heads as I'm the beds 'Cause there's gonna sleep here Tonight, nobody's gonna 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 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 around in the harbor, guns from her bow
Now you gentlemen can wipe off smile off your face every building in town is a flat one This whole freakin' place will be to the ground Only cheap hotel 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, through the and to-do You wonder, "Who is that that lives up there?" And you see me out in the morning Looking nice a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Freighter Runs a flag up its and a cheer rings the air
By noontime the is a-swarmin' with men Comin' out from the ghostly move 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?"
by the clock and so still by the dock You can hear a foghorn away And in quiet of death, I'll say "Right now, now"
they'll pile up the bodies And say, "That'll learn ya" And the ship, the Black out to sea and on it is me