You can watch while I'm scrubbin' these floors And I'm scrubbin' the floors you're gawking Maybe once you tip me and it makes you feel In crummy Southern town, in this crummy old hotel But you'll guess to who you're talkin' No, you ever guess 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, a ship, the Black Freighter With a on its masthead will be comin' in
You gentlemen can say, "Hey gal, finish floors" "Get upstairs, what's wrong you, earn 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, nobody's gonna sleep here, Nobody,
Then one night 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?"
tell you, there's a ship, the Black Freighter Turns in the harbor, shootin' guns from her bow
Now you gentlemen can wipe off that off your face 'Cause every building in is a flat one This whole freakin' place 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, through the 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 a flag up its masthead and a cheer rings the air
By noontime the dock is a-swarmin' men out from the ghostly freighter They move in the shadows no one can see And they're chainin' up people and bringin' em to me me, "Kill them now or later?" Askin' me, "Kill now or later?"
Noon by the clock and so still by the You can hear a foghorn away And in quiet of death, I'll say "Right now, now"
Then pile up the bodies And say, "That'll learn ya" And the ship, the Freighter out to sea and on it is me