Of the belles, belles, belles, belles,

Belles, belles, belles,

Oh, the tearing and despairing of the belles!

III.

Oh, the belles of the Mabille,

Brazen belles!

What a world of lying love their honied accent tells.

In the glare and in the light

How they dance out their delight,

Thinking of the future never,