Key: F minor
Verse 1
scrubbing these floors
And I'm scrubbin' the floors while
Maybe once you tip me and it
makes you feel swell
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In this crummy Southern town
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In this crummy old hotel
to who you're talkin'
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No, you couldn't ever guess
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Verse 2
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And you'll won der who
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could that have been
And you see me kinda grinnin'
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while I'm scrubbin'
And you say,
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I'll tell you
Verse 3
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The Black Freighter
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With a skull on its masthead
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Will be coming in
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Verse 4
You gentlemen can say, "Hey gal,
finish them floors!
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Dm
you! Earn your keep here!
You toss me your tips and look
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But I'm counting your heads as I'm making
'Cause there's nobody
gonna sleep here
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Tonight, nobody's gonna sleep
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here, honey
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Nobody
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Nobody
Em
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Verse 5
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Then one night,
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there's a scream in the night
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Cm
And you say, "Who's that kicking
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up a row?"
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C
out the window
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Em
I'll tell you
Verse 6
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Abm
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Em
The Black Freighter
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Shootin' guns from her bow
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Verse 7
Now
You gentlemen can wipe off that
smile off your face
will be down to the ground
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Only this cheap hotel standing
up safe and sound
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And you yell,
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"Why do they spare that one?"
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"Why do they spare that one?"
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Verse 8
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You won der who is that person
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And you see me step ping out
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in the morning
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Looking nice with a ribbon in my hair,
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haha
Verse 9
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The Black Freighter
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Runs a flag up its masthead
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F
And a cheer rings in the air
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Verse 10
the dock is a- swarmin' with men
Comin' out from the
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They're moving'in the shadows where
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C
And they're chainin' up people,
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and they're bringin' em to me
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Askin' me, "Kill them now,
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or later?"
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Askin' me, "Kill them now,
or later?"
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Noon
Verse 11
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by the clock and
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so still at the dock
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You can hear a foghorn miles away
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and in that quiet of death
right now!"
Verse 12
bodies
And I'll say, "That'll learn ya!"
Verse 13
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F#
And the ship
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F#
The Black Freighter
And
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On
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It
Is
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Me
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