Don't be like the dodo bird.
Go to sleep at bedtime.
Don't be like the dodo bird.
Go to sleep at bedtime.

When people came to the land of the bird,
the dodo didn't go to sleep.
Instead it was awake deep in the night,
exploring their cities.

Don't be like the dodo bird.
Go to sleep at bedtime.
Don't be like the dodo bird.
Go to sleep at bedtime.

And when humans saw the dodo bird
stumbling around their towns in a stupor
the humans thought, "Hey, hey, dodo bird,
I think I will make a hat of you."

Don't be like the dodo bird.
Go to sleep at bedtime.
Don't be like the dodo bird.
Go to sleep at bedtime.

And the hats the humans made, oh yes.
Were the most beautiful of all, you guessed.
But every hat was a dodo slain,
and so there are no dodo birds.

Don't be like the dodo bird.
Go to sleep at bedtime.
Don't be like the dodo bird.
Don't sleep walk in others' towns.