1. With ears deafened and face contorted
Harder than debt on an impoverished man

2. How many a drinker has marked another
With musk from the aromatic ambergris

3. I'll never forget the day he came to us
With torn cheeks and perforated nose

4. So I said when I looked upon him
I reckon this one was in an army camp

5. But he said no, I was at a despicable feast
Of meager fare and poor hospitality

6. It was held by a lowly man who summoned me
I wish I'd been absent and hadn't attended

7. So when I sang this one song
Unaware and unprepared

8. The people leapt up and grabbed my reins
Tearing out my hair by its roots

9. Then I left happily drunk though untouched
By any wine, my eyes unmoistened

10. And the crux of the matter, to summarize
Had I not risen and come to, I'd have seen nothing