Topol - To Life lyrics
rate me<div class="showResultLinks">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 />
<br />
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 />
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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 />
<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!</
