Key: B minor•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
while I'm scrubbing these floors
And I'm scrubbing these floors
and it makes you feel swell
But you'll never guess
No
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You'll never guess to
who you're talking
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Verse 2
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Then one night there's
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a scream in the night
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And you wonder: "Who could
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Em
that have been?"
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And you see me kind of grinning
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Bm
And you say "What she got to grin?"
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I'll tell ya
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Bm
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There's a ship
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The black freighter
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Bm
With a skull on it's mast- head
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Will be coming in
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
What's wrong with you? Earn
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look to the ships
gonna sleep here tonight
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No
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Nobody
No- one
Verse 4
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a scream in the night
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Baug
And you say: "Who's
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And you see me kinda staring
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Bm
out the win dow
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to stare at now?"
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I'll tell ya
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There's a ship
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The black freighter
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Bm
Turns around in the harbour
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Baug
Shooting guns from her bow
Interlude 2
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Verse 5
smiles off your face
'Cause every building
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in town is a flat one
This whole frigging place will
be down to the ground
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Only this cheap hotel stand
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ing up, safe and sound
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And you yell: "Why do
they spare that one?
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"Why?
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"Why the hell do they
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spare that one?"
Verse 6
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Em
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All the night through with
the noise and to do
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And you wonder: "Who is that
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Bm
in the morning
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Looking fine with a rib
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bon in my hair
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Well just look at me now
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And a ship
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The black freighter
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Bm
Runs a flag up it's mast- head
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And a cheer rings the air. Hey!
Interlude 3
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My? on the dock
Verse 7
is
a swarming with men
Coming out from the ghostly
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freighter
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ows where no- one can see
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And they're chaining up people
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Asking me: "Kill them now
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or later?"
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Asking me: "Kill them now
Interlude 4
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Verse 8
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You can hear a fog horn
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miles away
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And in that quiet of death I'll say:
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"Right now!"
"Right now!"
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And I'll say: "That'll
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That'll learn you."
Verse 9
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Bm
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Disappears out to sea
On
It
Is
Me!
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