Now listen, gentlemen, to a new poem

Now listen, gentlemen, to a new poem

about rats and mice,

small ones and big ones.

Now he who has much vermin

and would like to get rid of it

shall be advised.

Refrain:

The mouse must die and perish:

the small mice, the big mice, the dormice,

the water mice, common mice, field-mice, shrew-mice, rearmice (bats)

they all must die and perish

of this powder,

they all must perish.

They cause a lot of damage in your house,

that's why you should get rid of them

by means of this pure powder.

As soon as they have eaten it

they will die of it from that very hour,

the big ones and the small ones.

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Refrain

And when you have a lazy maid,

then the mouse often causes her a lot of trouble,

as nothing is safe from it:

lard, bread and fruit, yes, everything it finds, indeed,

as soon as the mouse has got it, it gnaws and skins,

that's why you must get rid of it.

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Refrain

So buy this powder immediately,

if you have a great number of mice

in your house.

Buy it, in view of my presence,

buy it, buy it, dear folks,

if you want to get rid of the mice!

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Refrain