Tonalité : F minor
Verse 1
Em
You people can watch while I'm
scrubbing these floors
And I'm scrubbin' the floors while
Aaug
you're gawking
Maybe once you tip me and it
makes you feel swell
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Gm
In this crummy Southern town
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Cm
Abm
Ab
In this crummy old hotel
Cm
But you'll never guess
to who you're talkin'
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Cm
No, you couldn't ever guess
Dm
to who you're talkin'
D
Dm
Verse 2
Gm
Then one night,
Ebm
there's a scream in the night
Em
F
And you'll won der who
Em
Ebm
could that have been
And you see me kinda grinnin'
Em
C
Cm
while I'm scrubbin'
And you say,
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"What's she got to grin?"
Gm
Em
I'll tell you
Verse 3
Ebm
There's a ship
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Bbm
Db
The Black Freighter
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Abm
With a skull on its masthead
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F
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Will be coming in
Em
Verse 4
You gentlemen can say, "Hey gal,
finish them floors!
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Get upstairs! What's wrong with
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Dm
you! Earn your keep here!
You toss me your tips and look
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out to the ships
Cm
Gm
But I'm counting your heads as I'm making
Cm
the beds
'Cause there's nobody
gonna sleep here
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Cm
Tonight, nobody's gonna sleep
F
here, honey
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F
Nobody
Em
F
Nobody
Em
Dm
D
Verse 5
Dm
F
Gm
Cm
Then one night,
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Cdim
there's a scream in the night
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Cm
And you say, "Who's that kicking
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Cdim
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up a row?"
Gb
And you see me kinda starin'
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C
out the window
Abm
And you say, "What's she
C
got to stare at now?"
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Em
I'll tell you
Ebm
There's a ship
Verse 6
Gb
Abm
Ebm
Bbm
Em
The Black Freighter
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Turns around in the harbor
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Bb
Shootin' guns from her bow
Em
Verse 7
Now
You gentlemen can wipe off that
smile off your face
G
'Cause every building in town
Aaug
is a flat one
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This whole frickin' place
will be down to the ground
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Gm
Only this cheap hotel standing
up safe and sound
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F
And you yell,
Cm
F
"Why do they spare that one?"
Cm
Yes, that's what you say,
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C
D
"Why do they spare that one?"
Dm
All
Verse 8
Gm
the night through,
Ebm
through the noise and to- do
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Cm
F
You won der who is that person
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that lives up there?
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Abm
F
And you see me step ping out
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F
in the morning
Dm
Em
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Looking nice with a ribbon in my hair,
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haha
Ebm
And the ship
Verse 9
Bbm
Db
The Black Freighter
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Abm
Bm
Runs a flag up its masthead
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F
And a cheer rings in the air
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Bbm
Bb
Verse 10
Em
By noontime,
the dock is a- swarmin' with men
Comin' out from the
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ghostly freighter
Dm
Aaug
They're moving'in the shadows where
Dm
no one can see
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C
And they're chainin' up people,
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Cm
and they're bringin' em to me
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Cm
Askin' me, "Kill them now,
Cdim
Cm
or later?"
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Cm
F
Askin' me, "Kill them now,
or later?"
Gm
C
Noon
Verse 11
F
C
Cm
by the clock and
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F
Bb
Ebm
so still at the dock
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Bb
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C
F
Ebm
You can hear a foghorn miles away
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B
and in that quiet of death
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I'll say, "Right now,
right now!"
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Then they pile up the
Verse 12
bodies
And I'll say, "That'll learn ya!"
Verse 13
Ebm
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And the ship
Bbm
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The Black Freighter
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Disappears out to sea
And
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On
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It
Is
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Me
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