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Chaim Topol - If I were a rich man lyrics

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<b>If I were a rich man</b> by <i>Chaim Topol</i><br />(Refrain)

If I were a rich man

Daidle deedle daidle deedle daidle dum

All day long I'd biddy biddy bum

If I were a wealthy man

I wouldn't have to work hard

Daidle deedle daidle deedle daidle dum

If I were a biddy biddy rich

Deedle daidle deedle daidle man

I'd build a big tall house

With rooms by the dozen

Right in the middle of town

A fine tin roof with real wooden floors below

There could be one long staircase just going up

And one even longer coming down

And one more leading

Nowhere just for show

I'd fill my yard with chicks

And turkeys and geese and ducks

For the town to see and hear

Squawking just as noisily as they can

And each loud quack and cluck

And gobble and honk

Will land like a trumpet on the ear

As if to say here lives a wealthy man

(au Refrain)

I wouldn't have to work hard

Daidle deedle daidle deedle daidle dum

If I were a biddy biddy rich

Deedle daidle deedle daidle man

I see my wife, my Golde,

Looking like a rich man's wife

With a proper double chin ;

Supervising meals to her heart's delight

I see her putting on airs

And strutting like a peacock

Oy! What a happy mood she's in

Screaming at the servants day and night

If I were rich I'd have the time that I lack

To sit in the synagogue and pray

And maybe have a seat by the eastern wall

And I'd discuss the holy books

With the learned men

Seven hours hour every day

That could be the sweetest thing of all

The most important men in town

Will come to fawn on me

They will ask me to advise them

Like a Solomon the wise

"If you please Reb Tevye,

Pardon me Reb Tevye"

Posing problems that would cross

The rabbi's eyes

And it won't make one bit of difference

If I answer right or wrong

When you're rich,

They think you really know

(au Refrain)

I wouldn't have to work hard

Daidle deedel daidle deedle daidle dum

If I were a biddy biddy rich

Daidle deedle daidle deedle daidle dum

If I were a rich man

Daidle deedle daidle deedle daidle dum

Lord who made the lion and the lamb

You decreed I should be what I am

Would it spoil some vast eternal plan

If I were a wealthy man ?

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