[Chorus]
A knife does all the talking for a tartar!
And it speaks in cutting phrases to the foe!
For it soon can change a foeman to a martyr
Suddenly strikes its blow!
When tartar wives have other serenaders
Then the knife can make their vocalizing fade!
If you would win a tartar girl

[Verse]
Show her the tartar blade!
For a fight you never have to ask us
Tartar never have to be afraid
Keep the steel they boast in damascus
It is second grade
To the tartar blade
Yo, the tartar!
Yo, the tartar!
And his blade!

[Chorus]