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Artist/Band: 
Marc Almond 
Lyrics for Song: Pirate Jenny 
Lyrics for Album: A Virgin's Tale Vol. 2 [2006]
  
               
  3478>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
 
 
  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 harbor
  Shooting guns from her bow
 
 
  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 [unverified] 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
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| Album Lyrics: A Virgin's Tale Vol. 2 [2006] | 
 
   Marc Almond 
"A Virgin's Tale Vol. 2 [2006]"
 
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