You gentlemen can watch I'm scrubbin' the floor And I'm scrubbin' the while you're gawking And maybe you tipped me and it made you feel swell In a ratty in this ratty-old hotel
But you'll know to who you're talkin' You never know to who you're
Suddenly, one night, there's a scream in the And you yelled, "What the hell that have been?" And you see me kinda grinnin' while I'm And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
And the ship, a Freighter a skull on its masthead will be comin' in
Then you can say, "Hey girl, finish the floors Get upstairs, make the beds, your keep here You toss me your tips and out at the ships
But I'm countin' your I make up the beds 'Cuz there's nobody sleep here Tonight, none of you will here
Then, that night, there's a bang in the And you yelled, "Who's that up a row?" And ya see me starin' out the window And you say, "What's she got to at now?"
And the ship, the Black around in the harbor Shootin' from the bow
Then you gentlemen can wipe off the laugh your face Every in town is a flat one Your whole stinking place will be to the ground Only this cheap standin' up safe and sound
And you ask, "Why did they that one?" And you ask, "Why did they that one?"
All the night through, with the and to-do You wonder, who's the person lives up you see me steppin' out in the mornin' Lookin' nice with a ribbon in my
And the ship, the Freighter the flag up its masthead And a cheer the air
By noontime the Is a' swarmin' men Comin' off of that ghostly
And they're movin' in the no one can see And chainin' up people And bringin' to me
me "Kill now or later?" me "Kill now, or later?"
by the clock And so still on the You can the foghorn miles away
In quiet of death say, "Right now Then they'll up the bodies And say, "That'll learn ya"
And the The Black out to sea And on it is me