I'm back on dry land once again

Opportunity awaits me like a rat in a drain,

We're all hunting honey with money to burn

Just a short time to show you the tricks that we've learned.



If the boys all behave themselves here

Well there's pretty young ladies and beer in the rear,

You won't need a gutter to sleep in tonight

The prices I charge here will see you alright.



So she lays down beside me again

My sweet painted lady, the one with no name,

Many have used her and many still do

There's a place in the world for a woman like you.



Oh! Sweet painted lady

Seems it's always been the same,

Getting paid for being laid

Guess that's the name of the game.



Forget us we'll have gone very soon

Just forget we ever slept in your rooms,

And we'll leave the smell of the sea in your beds

Where love's just a job and nothing is said.