You people can watch I'm scrubbin' these floors And I'm scrubbin' the while you're gawking Maybe once you tip me and it you feel swell In crummy Southern town, in this crummy old hotel But never guess to who you're talkin' No, you couldn't ever to who you're talkin'
Then one night, there's a in the night And you'll wonder who could have been And you see me kinda grinnin' while I'm And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
I'll tell you, there's a ship, the Black With a skull on its will be comin' in
You gentlemen can say, "Hey gal, finish floors" "Get upstairs, what's with you, earn your keep here" You toss me your tips and out to the ships But I'm counting heads as I'm making the beds 'Cause there's nobody gonna sleep Tonight, gonna sleep 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?"
tell you, there's a ship, the Black Freighter Turns around in the harbor, shootin' from her bow
Now you gentlemen can off that smile off your face 'Cause every building in is a flat one This whole freakin' place will be down to the Only this cheap standing up safe and sound And you yell, "Why do spare that one?" Yes, that's you say, "Why do they 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 a ribbon in my hair
And the ship, the Freighter Runs a flag up its masthead and a rings the air
By noontime the is a-swarmin' with men out from the ghostly freighter They move in the where no one can see And they're chainin' up people and bringin' em to me Askin' me, "Kill now or later?" Askin' me, "Kill now or later?"
Noon by the clock and so still by the You can a foghorn miles away And in that quiet of death, say "Right now, now"
Then pile up the bodies And say, "That'll learn ya" And the ship, the Black out to sea and on it is me