Key: Eb major
Verse 1
You juggle muck and cork
while I'm scrubbing the floors
And I'm scrubbing the floors
while you're gawking
And maybe once you tipped me and it
made you feel so well
B
In this ratty waterfront in this ratty hotel
Bm
E
But you never know to
You never guess to whom
you're talking
Eb
D
And you'll say what she got to grin
Gm
Dm
And the ship of the black freighter
Bb
A
G
D
F#
Sails into the bay
Then you gentlemen can say,
hey girls, scrub the floors
Make the basket of the stairs
and you keep here
And you pass out the details,
you look out at the sheets
B
F#m
But I'm counting up head s
Bm
D
as I'm making up beds
will sleep here
Tonight none of you will sleep here
E
D
Then on that night there's a
D
Gm
And you yell, what the hell is that now?
Black
Bb
A
G
D
B
Open fire on the town
F#
Bm
Em
D
Gm
D
Gm
Eb
D
Eb
D
Oh
B
E
Em
E
Em
E
Em
D
Gm
D
Gm
Eb
D
Eb
Then you gentlemen can wipe
all the grins off your face
Every building in the town is a flat one
The home thinking place
will be down to the
ground
B
Bm
B
Only this cheap hotel will be standing safe
Bm
Em
And you'll say,
why did they spare that one?
You'll say, why did they spare that one?
Eb
D
Looking nice with a ribbon in my hair
Gm
Dm
And the ship in the black freighter
C
Bb
A
G
D
And the cheer rings the end
Then just before noon there'll be hundreds of
men coming across that ghostly freighter
And they're moving in the shadows
where no one can see
B
Gbm
And they're chaining up the people
Bm
D
and they're bringing them to me
Asking me, kill them now or later
E
D
Noon on the clock and so
D
Gm
You could hear a foghorn miles away
Eb
D
In the quiet of death I'll say, kill him now
Eb
D
And they'll pile up the bodies and I'll say,
hoopla
A
D
Gm
and the ship of the black
Dm
Cm
freighter sails away out to sea
Bb
A
G
D
F#
Ab
and on it is me
Abm
G#
G#m
G#
G#m
G#
G#
G#
You
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