I'm back on dry land once again
 
 Opportunity awaits me like a rat in the drain
 
 We're all hunting honey with money to burn
 
 I'm back on dry land once again
 
 Opportunity awaits me like a rat in the 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
 
 Oh 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