[thaumasiotes]

It is often a temptation to a rich and lazy nation

To puff and look important and to say

Though we know we should defeat you

We have not the time to beat you

We will therefore give you cash to go away

And that is called paying the Dane-Geld

And we've proved it again and again

That if once you have paid him the Dane-Geld

You never get rid of the Dane