Marc Almond - Pirate Jenny Lyrics
Ahh you people can watch while Im scrubbing these floorsAnd Im scrubbing these floors while youre gawkingMaybe once you tip me and it makes you feel swellIn this crummy southern townIn this pit of hotelBut youll never guess to who youre talkingNoYoull never guess to who youre talkingThen one night theres a scream in the nightAnd you wonder: who could that have been ?And you see me kind of grinning while Im scrubbingAnd you say what she got to grin ?Ill tell yaTheres a shipThe black freighterWith a skull on its mast-headWill be coming inYou gentlemen say: hey gal, finish them floorsWhats wrong with you ? earn your keep hereYou toss me your tips and look to the shipsBut Im counting your heads as Im making the bedscause theres nobody gonna sleep here tonightNoNobodyNo-oneNo-oneThen one night theres a scream in the nightAnd you say: whos that kicking up a row?And you see me kinda staring out the windowAnd you say: what she got to stare at now ?Ill tell yaTheres a shipThe black freighterTurns around in the harbourShooting guns from her bowWell you gentlemen can wipe those smiles off your facecause every building in town is a flat oneThis whole frigging place will be down to the groundOnly this cheap hotel standing up, safe and soundAnd you yell: why do they spare that one ?Why?Why the hell do they spare that one ?All the night through with the noise and to doAnd you wonder: who is that person that lives up there ?And you see me stepping out in the morningLooking fine with a ribbon in my hairWell just look at me nowAnd a shipThe black freighterRuns a flag up its mast-headAnd a cheer rings the air. hey!My ? ? ? on the dock is a swarming with menComing out from the ghostly freighterTheyre moving in the shadows where no-one can seeAnd theyre chaining up peopleAnd delivering em to meAsking me: kill them now or later ?Asking me: kill them now or later ?Noon by the clock and so still at the dockYou can hear a fog horn miles awayAnd in that quiet of death Ill say:Right now !Right now !And they pile up the bodiesAnd Ill say: thatll learn you.Thatll learn you.And the shipThe black freighterDisappears out to seaAndOnItIsMe !
