You people can watch while I'm
Scrubbin' these floors and I'm
Scrubbin' the floors while you're gawking
Maybe once you tip me and it
Makes you feel swell in this
Crummy southern town in this
Crummy old hotel
But you'll never guess to who you're talkin'
No, you couldn't ever guess to who you're talkin'

Then one night, there's a scream in the night
And you wonder, "Who could that have been?"
And you see me kinda grinning' while I'm scrubbin'
And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
I'll tell you

There's a ship
The Black Freighter
With a skull on its masthead
Will be coming in

You gentlemen can say, "Hey, gal
Finish them floors! Get upstairs!
What's wrong with you? Earn your keep here!"
And you toss me your tips and
Look out to the ships
But I'm counting your heads
As I'm making the beds
'Cause there's nobody gonna sleep here tonight!
Nobody's gonna sleep here, honey
Nobody!
Nobody

Then one night, there's a scream in the night
And you say, "Who's that kicking up a row?"
And you see me kinda starn' out the window
And you say, "What's she got to stare at now?"
I'll tell you

There's a ship
The Black Freighter
Turns around in the harbor
Shootin' guns from her bow

Now
You gentlemen can wipe off the smile off your face
'Cause every building in town is a flat one
This whole frickin' place will be down to the ground
Only this cheap hotel standing up safe and sound
And you yell, "Why do they spare that one?"
Yes
That's what you say
"Why do they spare that one?"

All the night through, through the noise and to-do
You wonder, "Who is that person that lives up there?"
And you see me stepping out in the morning
Looking nice with a ribbon in my hair

And the ship
The Black Freighter
Runs a flag up its masthead
And a cheer rings the air

By noontime the dock is a-swarmin' with men
Comin' out from the ghostly freighter
They move in the shadows where
No one can see and they're
Chainin' up people and they're bringin' them to me
Askin' me, "Kill them NOW, or later?"
Askin' ME!
"Kill them now, or later?"

Noon by the clock
And so still at the dock
You can hear a foghorn miles away
And in that quiet of death
I'll say, "Right now
Right now!"

Then they'll pile up the bodies
And I'll say
"That'll learn ya!"

And the ship
The Black Freighter
Disappears out to see
And on it
Is me

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