Pirate Jenny-Judy Collins

[ti:Pirate Jenny] [ar:Judy Collins] [al:Forever - An Anthology] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Pirate Jenny - Judy Collins [00:02.73]You gentlemen can watch while I'm scrubbin the floor [00:05.43] [00:05.95]And I'm scrubbin' the floor while you're gawking [00:08.70] [00:09.34]And maybe once you tipped me and it made you feel swell [00:12.53] [00:13.17]In a ratty waterfront in this ratty old hotel [00:16.10]But you'll never know to who you're talkin [00:18.34] [00:19.32]You never know to who you're talkin [00:21.45] [00:22.95]Suddenly one night there's a scream in the night [00:25.78]And you yelled What the hell could that have been [00:28.26] [00:28.89]And you see me kinda grinnin while I'm scrubbin [00:32.60] [00:33.28]And you say What's she got to grin [00:35.77] [00:37.80]And the ship a Black Freighter [00:43.36] [00:44.09]With a skull on its masthead will be comin in [00:51.16] [00:53.65]Then you gentlemen can say Hey girl finish the floors [00:57.10]Get upstairs make the beds earn your keep here [00:59.61] [01:00.26]You toss me your tips and look out at the ships [01:04.05]But I'm countin' your heads [01:05.66]While I make up the beds [01:07.11]Cuz there's nobody gonna sleep here [01:09.29] [01:10.56]Tonight none of you will sleep here [01:13.33] [01:14.54]Then that night there's a bang in the night [01:17.27]And you yelled Who's that kicking up a row [01:19.58] [01:20.83]And ya see me kinda starin out the window [01:24.43] [01:25.33]And you say What's she got to stare at now [01:28.29] [01:30.04]And the ship the Black Freighter [01:36.69]Turns around in the harbor [01:41.15]Shootin guns from the bow [01:46.54] [01:47.77]Then you gentlemen can wipe off the laugh from your face [01:51.49]Every building in town is a flat one [01:53.89] [01:54.89]Your whole stinking place will be down to the ground [01:58.22]Only this cheap hotel standin' up safe and sound [02:02.38]And you ask Why did they spare that one [02:05.07] [02:05.86]And you ask Why did they spare that one [02:08.30] [02:10.05]All the night through with the noise and to do [02:13.11]You wonder who's the person lives up there [02:15.85] [02:16.69]Then you see me steppin' out in the mornin [02:20.22] [02:21.23]Lookin' nice with a ribbon in my hair [02:25.43] [02:27.50]And the ship the Black Freighter [02:34.41]Runs the flag up its masthead [02:38.25] [02:38.78]And a cheer rings the air [02:43.09] [02:46.45]By noontime the dock [02:48.14]Is a' swarmin' with men [02:49.84]Comin' off of that ghostly freighter [02:52.41] [02:53.62]And they're movin' in the shadows [02:55.22]Where no one can see [02:57.25]And they're chainin' up people [02:59.01]And bringin' them to me [03:00.50]Askin' me [03:01.20] [03:01.88]Kill them now or later [03:03.40] [03:04.48]Askin' me [03:05.36] [03:06.09]Kill them now or later [03:07.78] [03:10.69]Noon by the clock [03:12.07] [03:12.58]And so still on the dock [03:15.35] [03:16.53]You can hear the foghorn miles away [03:21.62] [03:22.44]In that quiet of death [03:25.97] [03:26.50]I'll say Right now [03:29.74] [03:31.38]Then they'll pile up the bodies [03:33.39] [03:34.34]And I'll say That'll learn ya [03:38.29] [03:40.16]And the ship [03:43.07] [03:44.01]The Black Freighter [03:46.97] [03:47.79]Disappears out to sea and on it is me