1. Your people have strayed from you
While you hunt rabbits heedlessly

2. If Chosroes dies, another Chosroes arises
We count three in succession

3. And all the people, we are the ones who pledge allegiance to him
And if you wish, we will call your fat uncle our prince

4. And if you come with a female camel or an Indian
We will pledge allegiance to her as Commander of the Faithful

5. We affirm your kingdom, and if you want
Us to call the bald woman our ruler, we say submissively

6. Oh how I wish we had noses
But we will not return as we once sang

7. If you beat us until we return
To Mecca, we will lick the hot metal there

8. We have swallowed anger until if we drank
The blood of the Banu Umayyah, we would not be sated