Tonart: G# minor•
Verse 1
Am
You gentlemen can watch
while I'm scrubbing the floors
And I'm scrubbing the floors
F#
while you're gawking
And maybe once
you're tip -manned
it makes you feel swell
Eb
On a ratty waterfront in
a ratty old hotel
Bb
And you nev er guess to
Fm
Bb
who you're talking
E
Fm
Bb
You never guess to who you're talking
there's a scream in the night
And you wonder what could that have been
E
F#
And you see me kind of grinning
D#
while I'm scrubbing,
A#
E
an d you wonder what she got to grin.
Bb
Abm
Eb
And a ship, a black freighter,
Dbm
E
with a skull on its masthead,
Dbm
B
Abm
Eb
Am
will be com ing in.
You gentlemen can say,
hey girl, finish the floors,
get upstairs, make the beds,
Gb
earn your keep here.
You toss me your tips
and look out at the ships,
Eb
but I'm counting your heads
while I make up the beds,
Fm
Bb
cause there's nobody gonna sleep here.
Fm
Tonight none of you will sleep here.
Gm
Eb
Then that night there's a bang
in the night
and you yell, who is that kicking up a row?
Bb
of staring out the window
Gb
Bb
what's she got to stare at now?
Eb
Abm
Eb
And the ship, the black freighter
Dbm
E
Turns around in the harbor
Dbm
B
Bb
Eb
Am
Shooting guns from the bow
Then you gentlemen
can wipe off
that laugh from your face,
Gb
every building in town is a flat one.
Am
Your whole stinkin' place will
Gb
Am
be down to the ground,
Eb
only this cheap hotel's
standin' up safe and sound.
Dm
And you yell, why do
E#dim
Db
they spare that one?
E#m
why do they spare that one?
All the night through with
Abm
the noise and to -do,
the person lives up there.
E
Gb
Then you see me steppin' out
E
G#m
D#
Bb
lookin' nice, with a ribbon in my hair.
Eb
Abm
Eb
And the ship, the Black Freighter,
Dbm
E
Dbm
runs a flag up its masthead,
E
Bb
Eb
Am
and the cheering's the air .
By noontime, the dark is all swarming
With men coming off of that
Bbdim
ghostly freighter.
Gb
They're moving in the shadows
where no one can see,
Eb
And they're chaining up people
and bringing them to me,
Abm
E
Bb
Asking me, kill them now or later,
Fm
Bb
Fm
Bb
Asking me, kill them now or later.
E
Abm
E#dim
Abm
and so still on the dock,
B#m
Eb
Abm
you can hear a foghorn miles away.
E
Bm
E
In that quiet of death,
A#
I'll say, right now.
E
And they pile up the bodies,
A#
A#
and I'll say, That'll earn ya.
D#
G#m
D#
And the ship, the black freighter,
C#
B
A#
G#
D#
And on it is a me.
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