We ve emptied out all the bars and the bowery hotels. Tell your daughters do not walk the streets alone tonight Tell your daughters do not walk the streets alone tonight. To tell the tale of the jewess and the mandarin chinese boy He led her down from her gilded canopy of cloth. And through her blindfold she could make out the figures there before her And how the air was thick with incensecardamom and myrrh. So goodnightboysgoodnight Say goodnightboysgoodnight We set to sail on the clipper that s bound for South Australia The weather s warm therethe natives are dark and nubile. But if you listenquietyou can hear the footsteps on the cross-trees The ghosts of sailors passedtheir spectral bodies clinging to the shrouds. So goodnightboysgoodnight Say goodnightboysgoodnight.

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