Pirate Jenny Lyrics - Marc Almond

Ahh you people can watch while I'm scrubbing these floors 

And I'm scrubbing these floors while you're gawking 

Maybe once you tip me and it makes you feel swell 

In this crummy southern town 

In this pit of hotel 

But you'll never guess to who you're talking 

No 

You'll never guess to who you're talking 

Then one night there's a scream in the night 

And you wonder: "Who could that have been?" 

And you see me kind of grinning while I'm scrubbing 

And you say "What she got to grin?" 

I'll tell ya 

There's a ship 

The black freighter 

With a skull on it's mast-head 

Will be coming in 

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You gentlemen say: "Hey gal, finish them floors 

What's wrong with you? Earn your keep here" 

You toss me your tips and look to the ships 

But I'm counting your heads as I'm making the beds 

'Cause there's nobody gonna sleep here tonight 

No 

Nobody 

No-one 

No-one 

Then one night there's a scream in the night 

And you say: "Who's that kicking up a row?" 

And you see me kinda staring out the window 

And you say: "What she got to stare at now?" 

I'll tell ya 

There's a ship 

The black freighter 

Turns around in the harbour 

Shooting guns from her bow 

Photos 

Well you gentlemen can wipe those smiles off your face 

'Cause every building in town is a flat one 

This whole frigging place will be down to the ground 

Only this cheap hotel standing up, safe and sound 

And 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 do 

And you wonder: "Who is that person that lives up there?" 

And you see me stepping out in the morning 

Looking fine with a ribbon in my hair 

Well just look at me now 

And a ship 

The black freighter 

Runs a flag up it's mast-head 

And a cheer rings the air. Hey! 

My? on the dock is a swarming with men 

Coming out from the ghostly freighter 

They're moving in the shadows where no-one can see 

And they're chaining up people 

And delivering 'em to me 

Asking me: "Kill them now or later?" 

Asking me: "Kill them now or later?" 

Noon by the clock and so still at the dock 

You can hear a fog horn miles away 

And in that quiet of death I'll say: 

"Right now!" 

"Right now!" 

And they pile up the bodies 

And I'll say: "That'll learn you. 

That'll learn you." 

And the ship 

The black freighter 

Disappears out to sea 

And 

On 

It 

Is 

Me!