[JENNY] You gentlemen can watch while I'm scrubbin' the floors And I'm scrubbin' the floors while you're gawkin' And maybe once you tip me and it makes you feel swell On a ratty waterfront in a ratty old hotel And you never guess to who you're talkin' You never guess to who you are talkin' Suddenly one night, there's a scream in the night And you wonder, "What could that a-been?" And you see me kinda grinnin' while I'm scrubbin' And you wonder, "What's she got to grin?" And a ship, a black freighter With a skull on its masthead Will be comin' in
You gentlemen can say, "Hey girl, finish the floors Get upstairs, make the beds, earn your keep here!" You toss me your tips and look out at the ships But I'm countin' your heads while I make up the beds 'Cause there's nobody gonna sleep here Tonight none of you will sleep here Then that night there's a bang in the night And you yell, "Who's that kickin' up a row?" And you see me kinda starin' out the winda And you say, "What's she got to stare at now?" And a ship, the black freighter Turns around in the harbor Shootin' guns from the bow
Then you gentlemen can wipe off that laugh from your face Every building in town is a flat one Your whole stinkin' place will be down to the ground Only this cheap hotel standin' up safe and sound And you yell, "Why do they spare that one?" And you say, "Why do they spare that one?" All the night through with the noise and to-do You wonder who's that person lives up there Then you see me steppin' out into the mornin' Lookin' nice with a ribbon in my hair And the ship, the black freighter Runs the flag up its masthead And a cheer rings the air!
By noontime the dock is all swarmin' with men Comin' off of that ghostly freighter They're movin' in the shadows where no one can see And they're chainin' up people and 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 on the dock You can hear a foghorn miles away In that quiet of death, I'll say "Right now" And they pile up the bodies and I'll say "That'll learn you" Then the ship, the black freighter Disappears out to sea And on it is meTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
