1. I reached out my hand one day to a miser's chick
As a sincere, companionable vinegar would do

2. Then his servants leapt up towards me
With scowling, mean faces

3. So this one's for my belly when I fall flat
And that one's for my side when I rise up kicking

4. Then I recited a verse spoken by one of firmness
Whom the valiant horsemen had attacked with spears

5. And he who seeks wealth denied with a spear
Will live enriched or wish for death in battle