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If I were a rich man, |
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Daidle deedle daidle |
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Daidle daidle deedle daidle dumb |
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All day long I'd biddy-biddy-bum |
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If I were a wealthy man |
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I wouldn't have to work hard, |
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Daidle deedle daidle |
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Daidle daidle deedle daidle dumb |
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If I were a biddy-biddy rich, |
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Daidle deedle daidle daidle man |
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I'd build a big tall house with rooms by the dozen |
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Right in the middle of the town, |
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A fine tin roof with real wooden floors below. |
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There would be one long staircase just going up |
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And one even longer coming down, |
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And one more leading nowhere, just for show. |
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I'd fill my yard with chicks and turkeys and geese |
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And ducks for the town to see and hear, |
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Squawking just as noisily as they can, |
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And each loud |
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"pa-pa-geeee! pa-pa-gaack! pa-pa-geeee! pa-pa-gaack!" |
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Would land like a trumpet on the ear, |
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As if to say, "Here lives a wealthy man." |
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Oy! |
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If I were a rich man, |
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Daidle deedle daidle |
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Daidle daidle deedle daidle dumb |
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All day long I'd biddy-biddy-bum |
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If I were a wealthy man |
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I wouldn't have to work hard, |
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Daidle deedle daidle |
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Daidle daidle deedle daidle dumb |
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If I were a biddy-biddy rich, |
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Daidle deedle daidle daidle man. |
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I see my wife, my Golde, |
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Looking like a rich man's wife, |
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With a proper double chin, |
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Supervising meals to her heart's delight. |
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I see her putting on airs |
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And strutting like a peacock, |
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Oy! What a happy mood she's in, |
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Screaming at the servants day and night. |
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The most important men in town will come to fawn on me |
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They will ask me to advise them, |
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Like a Solomon the Wise |
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"If you please, Reb Tevye?" |
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"Pardon me, Reb Tevye?" |
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Posing problems that would cross a rabbi's eyes |
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Ya va voy, ya va voy voy vum |
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And it won't make one bit of difference |
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If I answer right or wrong |
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When you're rich they think you really know. |
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If I were rich, I'd have the time that I lack |
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To sit in the synagogue and pray, |
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And maybe have a seat by the Eastern wall, |
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And I'd discuss the learned books with the holy men |
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Seven hours every day |
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That would be the sweetest thing of all |
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Oy! |
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If I were a rich man, |
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Daidle deedle daidle |
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Daidle daidle deedle daidle dumb |
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All day long I'd biddy-biddy-bum |
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If I were a wealthy man. |
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I wouldn't have to work hard, |
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Daidle deedle daidle |
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Daidle daidle deedle daidle dumb |
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Lord who made the lion and the lamb, |
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You decreed I should be what I am |
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Would it spoil some vast, eternal plan, |
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If I were a wealthy man? |
