Hear you young one, listen nicely,
And you'll lead your life productively.
Whence your fathers bones lie,
Own happiness you will come by.
Don't go away to foreign countries,
For they're full of vile ceremonies.
Pour your father, your throat wash
Learn to be one of the Poles.
Them Germans and the Frenchies
Put on Pluders and wear stockings.
Antichristian love they proclaim
And carry their ‘nads in the open.
Mugs in powders and fondants,
Lice in their wigs, claps in asses.
Pour your father, your throat wash
Learn to be one of the Poles
Don’t read foreign books and treatises
What you don't know- ask the priest
Learn the saddle, sabre, and the pitcher
And they'll know to call you a Sir.
Take no coin from the marketplace,
Leave to Jews their own affairs.
Pour your father, your throat wash
Learn to be one of the Poles
To shield the motherland is your duty
Since it's your own land by ancestry.
Treachery lurks all around -
Make a foray on your neighbour.
Once in the Capital city
Watch what are doing the politicians
At elections cast your vote
For the purse and not for word.
Pour your father, your throat wash
Learn to be one of the poles
Take from people with gigingerliness,
Give for your soul on the masses.
God virtuous reads intentions
And saves for future recollections.
Marry young, make lots of children
So your resting place they look after.
Of these lessons, your forefathers
Had given ample examples.
Here for ages your grandchildren
The exercise won’t have forgotten.
Pour your father, your throat wash
Learn to be one of the poles
This reasoning Poland stands for:
To hell with all other nations!