You can watch while I'm scrubbin' these floors And I'm scrubbin' the while you're gawking Maybe once you tip me and it makes you swell In this crummy Southern town, in this old hotel But never guess to who you're talkin' No, you couldn't ever guess to who talkin'
Then one night, there's a scream in the And you'll wonder who that have been And you see me kinda grinnin' I'm scrubbin' And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
I'll you, there's a ship, the Black Freighter With a on its masthead will be comin' in
You gentlemen can say, "Hey gal, them floors" "Get upstairs, wrong with you, earn your keep here" You me your tips and look out to the ships But I'm counting heads as I'm making the beds 'Cause there's nobody gonna here Tonight, gonna sleep here, honey Nobody,
one night there's a scream in the night And you say, "Who's that up a row?" And you see me kinda out the window And you say, "What's she got to at now?"
I'll you, there's a ship, the Black Freighter Turns around in the harbor, shootin' from her bow
Now you gentlemen can wipe off smile off your face 'Cause every building in town is a one This freakin' place will be down to the ground Only this cheap hotel standing up safe and And you yell, "Why do they spare one?" Yes, what you say, "Why do they spare that one?"
All the night through, the noise and to-do You wonder, "Who is that person lives up there?" And you see me stepping out in the Looking nice with a in my hair
And the ship, the Freighter a flag up its masthead and a cheer rings the air
By noontime the dock is with men Comin' out the ghostly freighter They in the shadows where no one can see And they're chainin' up people and they're em to me me, "Kill them now or later?" Askin' me, "Kill now or later?"
Noon by the clock and so by the dock You can hear a miles away And in quiet of death, I'll say "Right now, now"
Then pile up the bodies And I'll say, "That'll ya" And the ship, the Black out to sea and on it is me