चमरटा गांठि न जनई ॥लोगु गठावै पनही ॥ १ ॥रहाउ ॥*camaraṭā gāṁṭhi na janaī ॥**lōgu gaṭhāvai panahī ॥ 1 ॥rahāu ॥*आर नही जिह तोपउ ॥नही रांबी ठाउ रोपउ ॥ १ ॥*āra nahī jiha tōpau ॥**nahī rāṁbī ṭhāu rōpau ॥ 1 ॥*लोगु गंठि गंठि खरा बिगूचा ॥हउ बिनु गांठे जाइ पहूचा ॥ २ ॥*lōgu gaṁṭhi gaṁṭhi kharā bigūcā ॥**hau binu gāṁṭhē jāi pahūcā ॥ 2 ॥*रविदासु जपै राम नामा ॥मोहि जम सिउ नाही कामा ॥ ३ ॥ ७ ॥*ravidāsu japai rāma nāmā ॥**mōhi jama siu nāhī kāmā ॥ 3 ॥ 7 ॥*
In plain words
The cobbler knows nothing about knotting a patch, and the people keep bringing him their shoes to mend. *(refrain)* I have no awl to sew with. I have no knife to set a patch in place. People knot and knot and are thoroughly ruined by it. I have done no knotting, and I have gone and arrived. Ravidās keeps saying the name of Rām. With Death I have no business at all. *rāṃbī*, the curved knife a leather-worker scrapes and cuts with.