Fiddler on the Roof movie - To Life! lyrics
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To life! To life! L'chai-im! <br>
L'chai-im, l'chai-im, to life! <br>
If you've been lucky, then Monday was No worse than Sunday <br>
was, <br>
Drink l'chai-im, to life. <br>
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To life, l'chai-im! <br>
L'chai-im, l'chai-im, to life! <br>
One day it's honey and raisin cake, <br>
Next day a stomach ache, <br>
Drink L'chai-im, to life! <br>
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Our great men have written words of <br>
Wisdom to be used <br>
When hardship must be faced; <br>
Life obliges us with hardship <br>
So the words of wisdom <br>
shouldn't go to waste. <br>
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To us and our good fortune <br>
Be happy be healthy, long life! <br>
And if our good fortune never comes <br>
Here's to whatever comes, <br>
Drink l'chaim, to life! <br>
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To life, to life, l'chai-im,! <br>
L'chai-im, l'chai-im, to life! <br>
Life has a way of confusing us <br>
Blessing and bruising us, <br>
Drink l'chaim, to life, <br>
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To life, l'chaim! <br>
L'chaim, l'chaim, to life! <br>
A gift we seldom are wise enough <br>
Ever to prize enough, <br>
Drink l'chaim, to life! <br>
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God would like us to be joyful <br>
Even though our hearts lie panting on the floor; <br>
How much more can we be joyful, <br>
When there's really something <br>
To be joyful for. <br>
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To life, to life, L'chai-im! <br>
L'chai-im, l'chai-im, to life! <br>
It gives you something to think about, <br>
Something to drink about, <br>
Drink l'chai-im, to life! l'chai-im ! <br>
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the blessing and bruising us part comes first. <br>
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the honey and raisin cake is not in the song at all. <br>
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you forgot the part about there lives being more <br>
pleasent <br>
<br>
then there future ones. <br>
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This may be a version of "To Life", but it's not the <br>
version from either the play or the movie. In "Fiddler," <br>
the song is about the wedding of Tevye's daughter. <br>
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To Life <br>
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Here's to our prosperity, our good health and happiness, <br>
and most important ... <br>
To life, to life, la kayim, <br>
La kayim, la kayim, to life, <br>
Here's to the father I tried to be, <br>
Here's to my bride-to-be, <br>
Drink la kayim, to life, <br>
To life, la kayim, <br>
La kayim, la kayim, to life, <br>
Life has a way of confusing us, <br>
Blessing and bruising us, <br>
Drink la kayim, to life! <br>
God would like us to be joyful, even when our hearts lie <br>
panting on the floor. <br>
How much more can we be joyful, when there's really <br>
something to be joyful for? <br>
To life, to life, la kayim, <br>
To Tzeitel, my daughter--my wife, <br>
It gives you something to think about, <br>
Something to drink about, <br>
Drink la kayim, to life! <br>
<br>
(Le Morta! <br>
Yes, Lazar Wolf? <br>
Drinks for everyone! <br>
What's the occasion? <br>
I'm taking myself a bride! <br>
Who is it? <br>
Tevye's eldest, Tzeitel!) <br>
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To Lazar Wolf-- <br>
To Tevye! <br>
To Tzeitel, your daughter--my wife! <br>
May all your futures be pleasant ones, <br>
Not like our present ones, <br>
Drink la kayim, to life, <br>
To life, la kayim, <br>
La kayim, la kayim, to life, <br>
It takes a wedding to make us say, <br>
"Let's live another day," <br>
Drink la kayim, to life! <br>
We'll raise a glass and sip a drop of schnapps in honor of <br>
the great <br>
good luck that favors you, <br>
We know that when good fortune favors two such men, it <br>
stands to reason, <br>
we deserve it too! <br>
To us and our good fortune! <br>
Be happy, be healthy, long life! <br>
And if our good fortune never comes, <br>
Here's to whatever comes, <br>
Drink la kayim, to life! <br>
<br>
Heaven bless you both, to your health and may we live <br>
together in peace! <br>
May you both be favored with the future of your choice, <br>
May you live to see a thousand reasons to rejoice! <br>
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We'll raise a glass and sip a drop of schnapps in honor of <br>
the great <br>
good luck that favors you, <br>
We know that when good fortune favors two such men, it <br>
stands to reason, <br>
we deserve it too! <br>
To us and our good fortune! <br>
Be happy, be healthy, long life! <br>
And if our good fortune never comes, <br>
Here's to whatever comes, <br>
Drink la kayim, to life!<br>
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