Ma! The dark cobra with pearl, my Kanha has stung my being!
My life rolls away in waves, someone retrieve it for me please!
Don't give me medicines, Ma; don't summon the medicine man,
Deliver me to Govind, my charmer, in Gokul!
Ma! The dark cobra with pearl, my Kanha has stung my being!
My life rolls away in waves, someone retrieve it for me please!

The snakebite seems fatal, thought the charmer aloud,
It is well for Narsinh to attain his lord; the charmer removed the poison from the girl's body.
Ma! The dark cobra with pearl, my Kanha has stung my being!
My life rolls away in waves, someone retrieve it for me please!