1. When my conscience is purified
Joy becomes my pleasure

2. And I'm satisfied with this
Such is the state of the poor

3. In my life and my death
And my contraction and expansion

4. My coming and going
My rising and falling

5. I'm not pleased with sourness
And I'm satisfied with sweetness

6. Whenever a journey passes
My journey follows happily after

7. And I'm satisfied with this
Such is the state of the poor

8. O night visitor, ah, your luck
If a complainer reproaches you

9. Endure him and say, why, why?
And beware of hunger, make

10. Dishes of all kinds of food
Leave eggs alone, don't eat them

11. You didn't find them in the frontiers
Be satisfied with this

12. Such is the state of the poor
My people, when I die

13. Shroud me in veils
Make sugar my ointment

14. And wrap me in cream pancakes
Refresh me with sherbet

15. And bury me in pastries
And if you bury figs with me

16. With Egyptian molasses
I won't be angry at all

17. Such is the state of the poor