You people can watch while I'm scrubbing these floors
And I'm scrubbin' the floors while you're gawking
Maybe once ya tip me and it makes ya 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'll wonder who could that have been
And you see me kinda grinnin' 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!
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, honey
Nobody
Nobody!
Then one night there's a scream in the night
And you say, who's that kicking up a row?
And ya see me kinda starin' out the winda
And you say, what's she got to stare at now?
I'll tell ya.
There's a ship
The black freighter
Turns around in the harbor
Shootin' guns from her bow
Now
You gentlemen can wipe off that 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' em to me
Askin' me,
Kill them now, or later?
Askin' me!
Kill them now, or later?
Noon by the clock
And so still by 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 sea
And
On
It
Is
Me
Pirate Jenny [Live]
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22nd Century African Mailman African Mailman [*] African Mailman [Instrumental] As used in the film One Night Stand Central Park Blues Central Park Blues [Instrumental] Come Ye [#] Compensation Cottom Eyed Joe Do I Move You? Do I Move You? [Version 2] Do I Move You? [Version II][#] Do What You Gotta Do [Live] Feeling Good [*] Feeling Good [Album Version] Feeling Good [The Assassin] For All We Know [*] Four Women [*] Four Women [Live] Gin House Blues [Live] God Bless the Child Good Bait House of the Rising Sun [Live] I Love My Baby I Loves You, Porgy I Loves You, Porgy [*] I Loves You, Porgy [From Porgy and Bess] I Loves You, Porgy [From Porgy and Bess][Mix] I Loves You, Porgy [Live] I Loves You, Porgy [Original 1959 Hit Version] I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl [Live] In Love in Vain In Love in Vain [#] In the Morning [*] In the Morning [#] Jelly Roll [#] Just in Time [Live] Just in Time... Little Girl Blue [Live] Little Girl Blue [Mono Alternate Take][Alternate T... Little Girl Blue [Mono Alternative Take][Live] Man With a Horn [#] Mississippi Goddam [*] Mississippi Goddam [#] Mississippi Goddam [Live] Music for Lovers [#] My Baby Just Cares for Me [*] My Baby Just Cares for Me [Extended Version] My Baby Just Cares for Me [Live] Ne Me Quitte Pas [*] Ne Me Quitte Pas [If You Go Away] Night Song [From Golden Boy] Old Jim Crow [Live] Parliament Square Revolution, Pt. 1 See Line Woman See Line Woman [Live] Summertime [Instrumental] Summertime [Live] Summertime [Vocal Version] Suzanne [#] Take My Hand, Precious Lord The Backlash Blues The Family The Folks Who Live on the Hill The Gin House Blues The House of the Rising Sun The House of the Rising Sun [Live] The Human Touch The Last Rose of Summer The Laziest Gal in Town The Look of Love The Look of Love [From Casino Royale] The Man With a Horn The More I See You The Other Woman The Other Woman [Live] The Pusher The Thrill Is Gone The Twelfth of Never To Be Young, Gifted and Black [Live] Trouble in Mind Try a Little Tenderness What More Can I Say? Where Can I Go Without You? Who Knows Where the Time Goes? Why Why? (The King of Love Is Dead) [#] Wild Is the Wind [Live]
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