Fleas, stink, pigs, mold,
 The gist of the Bohemian soul,
 Bread and salted fish and cold.
 
 Leeks, and cabbage three days old,
 Smoked meat, as hard and black as coal;
 Fleas, stink, pigs, mold.

 Twenty eating from one bowl,
 A bitter drink -it's beer, I'm told-
 Bad sleep on a straw in some filthy hole,
 Fleas, stink, pigs, mold,
 The gist of the Bohemian soul,
 Bread and salted fish and cold.