OK, so here's my transcription from the YouTube video, which is from the Black Irish Band album titled Into the Arms of the Sea. I've put question marks where I'm not sure of a word. Please submit your suggestions/corrections below, and I'll add them to the master text.

NEW YORK GIRLS
(as recorded by Black Irish Band)

Shanghaied in San Francisco, we fetched up in Bombay
We were set afloat in an old [east] boat that steered like bale of hay,
That steered like bale of hay

Now, shipmates if you listen, I will sing you all this song,
Of a thing that lately happened as I come home from Hong Kong,
As I come from Hong Kong.

CHORUS
To me, way Santies, my dear Annie,
Oh, you New York girls, can't you dance the polka?

Now as I was a-walkin' down the dock, a fair maid I did meet,
She asked me for to see her home, she lived on Bleecker Street,
She lived on Bleecker Street.

When we got down Bleecker Street, we stopped on Number 4,
With her twenty so-called "sisters" all a-waitin' at the door,
A-waitin' at the door.

CHORUS

She says, "Come in my lucky boy, for you shall have a treat,
For you shall have some brandy, and something good to eat,
And something good to eat.

She gave me wine that tasted fine, but went right to my head;
Well, then we threw our clothes away, and she carried me to bed,
She carried me to bed.

CHORUS

Now, when I awoke next morning, I was naked in the dawn;
My clothes and all of my money and my lady friends were gone,
My lady friends were gone.

So, as I looked around that room, there was nothing I could see,
But a lady's shift and pantaloons that now belonged to me,
That now belonged to me.

CHORUS

Now, when I got back to the dock, my shipmates gathered 'round,
"Is this the new spring fashion, that the boys now wear in town?
The boys now wear in town?"

"Well, Jack, you are much prettier than when you went to shore,
We see you've been to the factory outlets, do they have some more?
Oh, do they have some more?"

CHORUS

So, I'm standin' on that New York dock, so dressed and all forlorn,
Well Martin (?) Churchill found me and he shipped me 'round Cape Horn,
He shipped me 'round Cape Horn."

CHORUS

Now, I don't miss the money, another sailor might,
I just wish someone would tell me now if I had fun that night,
If I had fun that night.

CHORUS (twice)


Copyright 2003, Patrick Karnahan (of the Black Irish Band)

Black Irish Band recording from American Legends album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_vlN8h220s

Live performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CZJ2ejCHrc