Every sheepfold, every flock,Chose a ram and a bellwether.They sent them off to Tirana,And hung a bell on every neck.

They told them: “Ring your bells,For the pasture and the grass.So they find out in Europe,What kind of laws we can pass.”

But the billy goats, calves, and rams,Put on beards and horns on their heads,And the bells, those woolly-necks,Rang them for their own ends.