The Black Freighter-Steeleye Span

[ti:The Black Freighter (From 'The Threepenny Opera') (2010 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Steeleye Span] [al:Another Parcel of Steeleye Span (Their Second Five Chrysalis Albums 1976-1989)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.72]The Black Freighter - Steeleye Span [00:05.50]Written by：BRECHT/Weill [00:06.84] [00:08.65]You gentlemen can gawk while I'm scrubbing the floors [00:11.11]And I'm scrubbing the floors while you're gawking [00:13.11] [00:13.71]And maybe once you tipped me and it made you fell swell [00:17.40]In this ratty waterfront in this ratty hotel [00:19.43]But you never know to whom you're talking [00:21.48] [00:22.49]You never guess to whom you're talking [00:24.22] [00:25.32]Suddenly one night there's a scream in the night [00:27.95] [00:28.63]And a yell what the hell is that din [00:30.94]And you see me kind of grinning while I'm scrubbing [00:33.90] [00:35.88]And you'll say what's she got to grin [00:39.70] [00:42.70]And the ship the black freighter [00:47.74] [00:49.87]With the skull at the masthead [00:52.53] [00:55.48]Sails into the bay [00:59.75] [01:10.68]Then you gentlemen can say hey girl scrub the floors [01:13.63]Make the beds get up the stairs earn you keep here [01:16.43]And you pass out the tips as you look out at the ships [01:19.87]But I'm counting up heads as I'm making up beds [01:22.34]Cause tonight none of you will sleep here [01:24.47] [01:25.03]Tonight none of you will sleep here [01:26.80] [01:27.89]Then on that night there's a banging in the night [01:31.03]And you yell what the hell is that row [01:33.03] [01:33.57]And you see me kind of staring out the window [01:37.20] [01:39.33]And you'll say what she got to stare at now [01:43.21] [01:46.08]And the ship the black freighter [01:51.32] [01:53.56]With fifty long cannons [01:56.36] [01:59.07]Opens fire on the town [02:03.30] [03:15.94]Then you gentlemen can wipe all the grins off your face [03:18.75]Every building in the town is a flat one [03:20.98] [03:21.57]The whole stinking place will be down to the ground [03:24.40]Only this cheap hotel will be standing safe and sound [03:27.18]And you say why do they spare that one [03:29.43] [03:30.11]You say why do they spare that one [03:32.30] [03:33.26]Then all night through with a noise and to do [03:36.45]You'll wonder who's the person lives up there [03:39.08]And you see me stepping out into the morning [03:42.12] [03:44.19]Looking nice with a ribbon in my hair [03:48.27] [03:50.83]And the ship the black freighter [03:55.85] [03:57.70]Runs a flag up her masthead [04:00.89] [04:03.29]And cheer rings the air [04:07.88] [04:18.30]Then just before noon they'll be hundreds of men [04:21.19]Coming up off that ghostly freighter [04:22.93] [04:23.71]And they're moving in the shadows where no one can see [04:26.76]And they're chaining up the people and they're bringing them to me [04:29.72]Asking me kill them now or later [04:31.50] [04:32.17]Asking me kill them now or later [04:34.22] [04:35.18]Noon on the clock and so still on the dock [04:38.53] [04:39.10]You could hear a foghorn miles away [04:42.12] [04:44.68]In the quiet of death I'll say kill them now [04:50.46] [04:52.64]And they'll pile up the bodies and I'll say hoopla [05:01.01] [05:02.91]And the ship the black freighter [05:08.77] [05:10.86]Sails away out to sea [05:13.76] [05:16.45]And on it is me