Don't think of the danger which threatens your lives!
Leave home, leave friends, leave your children, your wives!
Hark to the sound of the rolling drum!
Come with me! Come with me! Come!
Follow me, follow me, every one,
To where the white camps shine in the sun.
Rataplan! Rataplan! Rataplan!
Follow me, follow me, every true man!
From the crowded streets of the city, come!
Follow the drum, the drum, the drum!