You people can watch I'm scrubbin' these floors And I'm the floors while you're gawking once you tip me and it makes you feel swell In this Southern town, in this crummy old hotel But you'll guess to who you're talkin' No, you couldn't ever guess to who you're
Then one night, a scream in the night And you'll wonder who could that have And you see me kinda grinnin' I'm scrubbin' And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
tell you, there's a ship, the Black Freighter With a skull on its will be comin' in
You gentlemen can say, "Hey gal, finish floors" "Get upstairs, what's wrong with you, earn your here" You toss me tips and look out to the ships But I'm counting your heads as I'm making the 'Cause nobody gonna sleep here Tonight, nobody's gonna sleep here, Nobody,
one night there's a scream in the night And you say, "Who's kicking up a row?" And you see me kinda starin' out the And you say, "What's she got to at now?"
tell you, there's a ship, the Black Freighter Turns around in the harbor, shootin' from her bow
Now you gentlemen can wipe off that off your face 'Cause every building in town is a one This whole freakin' will be down to the ground this cheap hotel standing up safe and sound And you yell, "Why do they spare one?" Yes, that's what you say, "Why do spare that one?"
All the night through, through the and to-do You wonder, "Who is person that lives up there?" And you see me stepping out in the Looking nice with a ribbon in my
And the ship, the Freighter Runs a flag up its masthead and a cheer the air
By noontime the is a-swarmin' with men Comin' out from the ghostly They in the shadows where no one can see And chainin' up people and they're bringin' em to me Askin' me, "Kill 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 quiet of death, say "Right now, now"
Then they'll up the bodies And say, "That'll learn ya" And the ship, the Black out to sea and on it is me