Tonalidad: Eb major
Verse 1
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 tip me
and it makes you feel swell,
D
Bm
on a ratty waterfront in a ratty
D
old hotel.
Em
And you never guess to who you're talking,
you never guess to who
you're talking.
F#m
D
Suddenly one night
Gm
D
there's a scream in the night,
and you wonder
what could that have been.
Eb
Em
And you see me kind of grinning
D
while I'm scrubbing,
Em
Eb
an d you wonder
D
what she got to grin.
A
Gm
D
And a ship, a black freighter,
Eb
with a skull on its masthead,
Cm
Bb
Gm
D
will be com ing in.
B
You gentlemen can say,
hey girl, finish the floors,
Eb
get upstairs, make the beds,
F
earn your keep here.
Em
You toss me your tips
F
D
and look out at the shifts,
but I'm counting your heads
while I make up the beds,
Em
cause there's nobody
gonna sleep here.
Tonight, none of you will sleep here.
F#m
D
Then that night,
Gm
there's a bang in the night,
D
and you yell,
who's there kicking up a row?
Eb
And you see me kinda
A
starin' out the window
Em
Eb
And you say,
A
what's she got to stare at now?
D
Gm
D
And the ship, the black freighter
Eb
Turns around in the harbor
Cm
Bb
A
D
Shootin' guns from the bow
Then you gentlemen
can wipe off
that laugh from your face
B
F
Every building in town is a flat one
D
Your whole stinkin' place will
F
C#m
be down to the ground
D
Only this cheap hotel's there
and up seven sun
A
And you yell, why do
Em
they spare that one?
And you say, why do they spare that one?
F#m
D
All the night through with
Gm
the noise and to -do
D
You wonder who's
the person lives up there
Eb
F
Then you see me stepping out
D
Eb#m
into the morning
D
Eb
Gm
D
A
Looking nice with a ribbon in my hair
D
Gm
D
And the ship, the Black Freighter
Eb
Cm
Runs the flag up its masthead
Eb
A
D
An d the cheering's there
By noontime the dark is all swarming
with men coming off of that
F
ghostly freighter.
They're moving in the shadows
where no one can see
Bm
D
and they're chaining up people
Bm
D
Em
and bringing them to me, asking me,
A
kill them now or later.
Em
A
Em
A
D
Asking me, kill them now or later.
Bm
D
A
Noon by the clock,
Em
Gm
and so still on the dock,
Bm
Em
you can hear a fog
D
Em
Gm
horn miles away.
Eb
A
D
A
In that quiet of death, I'll say, right now.
Eb
And they pile up the bodies,
A
A
I'll say, That'll earn ya.
D
Gm
D
Then the ship, the black freighter,
Eb
Disappears out to sea,
C
Bb
A
G
And on it is a me.
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