Key: F minor•
Verse 1
while I'm scrubbing the floors
And I'm scrubbing the floors
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D#m
Bb
An d maybe once you tip me
Db
In a ratty waterfront in a ratty old hotel
But you never guess to
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Dbm
who you're talking
You never guess to
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B
Suddenly one night there's
Em
G
a scream in the night
Gsus4
C
G#m
what the hell's she got to grin?
G
Em
B
And a sheep, a black freighter
G
B
Em
B
Fm
We'll be coming in
And you gentlemen can say,
girl, finish the floor,
Get upstairs, make your beds,
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D
Bb
You toss me the tips
D
Bb
And look out to the ships
While I'm making the beds
Cause there's nobody
Bbm
Dbm
Gonna sleep here
Tonight none of you
Db
Fm
Will sleep here
D#
B
G
Em
Then that night there's a bang in the night,
G
G#m
out the window.
G#
C
And you say, what's she got
B
G#m
to stare at now?
B
Em
B
And a sheep, a black freighter,
C
Am
turns around in the harbor,
D
F#
B
Em
B
Fm
Shooting guns from her bow
And you gentlemen
can wipe off
the laugh from your face
D#m
Bb
This whole stinking place will
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Dbsus4
Only this cheap hotel's
And they say, why do
Bbm
Dbdim
they spare that one?
Dbm
And you say, why do they spare that one?
D#
B
Em
All the night through with the noise
G
G#
and you see me stepping out into the morning
G#m
G#
Cm
Gsus4
C
G
Abm
G
look ing nice with a ribbon in my hair an d
Em
B
And a sheep, a black freighter,
B
Em
B
Fm
and a cheer rings the air.
By noontime the dock is all swarming
with men coming off of that ghostly freighter.
where no one can see
B
C#
an d bringing them to me
C#m
Em
Asking me, kill them now or later
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C#m
C#
Em
Asking me, kill them now or later
B
G#m
B
Noon by the clock
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Em
And so still on the dock
F#sus4
G#m
B
C#m
Em
You can hear a foghorn miles away
C
Gm
C
Em
In that quiet of death, I'll say, right now
B
C
And they pile up the bodies,
Em
B
And the ship, the Black Freighter,
G
B
and on it is me.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsFm D A# D#m Bb...
Fm
D
A#
D#m
Bb
Db
Bbdim
Dbm
Eb
B
Em
G
G#m
G#
Gsus4
C
Bbm
D#
Am
F#
Dbsus4
Dbdim
Cm
Abm
C#
C#m
F#sus4
Gm
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Chords
Fm
D
A#
D#m
Bb
Db
Bbdim
Dbm
Eb
B
Em
G
G#m
G#
Gsus4
C
Bbm
D#
Am
F#
Dbsus4
Dbdim
Cm
Abm
C#
C#m
F#sus4
Gm
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Capo: 1
Transpose: 0
0
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