Key: G# minor•
Verse 1
while I'm scrubbing the floors
And I'm scrubbing the floors
And maybe once
you're tip -manned
it makes you feel swell
a ratty old hotel
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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
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And you see me kind of grinning
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while I'm scrubbing,
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E
an d you wonder what she got to grin.
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Abm
Eb
And a ship, a black freighter,
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E
with a skull on its masthead,
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B
Abm
Eb
Am
will be com ing in.
You gentlemen can say,
hey girl, finish the floors,
get upstairs, make the beds,
You toss me your tips
and look out at the ships,
while I make up the beds,
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Bb
cause there's nobody gonna sleep here.
Gm
Eb
Then that night there's a bang
in the night
and you yell, who is that kicking up a row?
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Bb
what's she got to stare at now?
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Abm
Eb
And the ship, the black freighter
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E
Turns around in the harbor
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B
Bb
Eb
Am
Shooting guns from the bow
Then you gentlemen
can wipe off
that laugh from your face,
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Am
be down to the ground,
standin' up safe and sound.
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Db
they spare that one?
All the night through with
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.
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Abm
Eb
And the ship, the Black Freighter,
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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
where no one can see,
and bringing them to me,
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E
Bb
Asking me, kill them now or later,
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Bb
Fm
Bb
Asking me, kill them now or later.
E
Abm
E#dim
Abm
and so still on the dock,
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Eb
Abm
you can hear a foghorn miles away.
E
Bm
E
In that quiet of death,
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A#
and I'll say, That'll earn ya.
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G#m
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And the ship, the black freighter,
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B
A#
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And on it is a me.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsAm F# Eb Bb Fm...
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