You gentlemen can watch I'm scrubbin' the floor And I'm the floor while you're gawking And once you tipped me and it made you feel swell In a ratty waterfront in this ratty-old
But you'll know to who you're talkin' You never know to who talkin'
Suddenly, one night, there's a in the night 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 Black With a on its masthead will be comin' in
Then you gentlemen can say, "Hey girl, finish the Get upstairs, make the beds, earn your here You toss me your tips and out at the ships
But I'm countin' heads While I up the beds 'Cuz there's nobody gonna here Tonight, of you will sleep here
Then, that night, there's a bang in the And you yelled, "Who's that up a row?" And ya see me kinda out the window And you say, "What's she got to at now?"
And the ship, the Freighter Turns around in the Shootin' guns the bow
Then you gentlemen can wipe off the from your face building in town is a flat one Your whole stinking place be down to the ground Only this cheap standin' up safe and sound
And you ask, "Why did spare that one?" And you ask, "Why did spare that one?"
All the night through, the noise and to-do You wonder, who's the person lives up Then you see me steppin' out in the Lookin' nice with a ribbon in my
And the ship, the Freighter the flag up its masthead And a cheer the air
By the dock Is a' with men Comin' off of that ghostly
And movin' in the shadows no one can see And chainin' up people And them to me
me "Kill now or later?" me "Kill now, or later?"
Noon by the And so still on the You can the foghorn miles away
In that of death say, "Right now Then pile up the bodies And I'll say, "That'll ya"
And the The Black out to sea And on it is me