Title: If I Were A Rich Man

Musical: Fiddler On The Roof
Sequenced by: Michael D. MacDonald
(c) 1994, 1999

Michael D MacDonald
This is one of the very first songs I ever sequenced--the original, from 1987 or so, is long lost but was done on a Commodiore 64 and used three whopping channels...
Non commercial use only pleae
Do not alter in any manner

If I were a rich man.
Ya ha deedle deedle,
bubba bubba
deedle deedle dum.
All day long
I'd biddy biddy bum.
If I were a wealthy man.
I wouldn't have to work hard.
Ya ha deedle deedle,
bubba bubba
deedle deedle dum.
If I were a biddy biddy rich,
yidle-diddle-didle-didle man.

I'd build a big tall house
with rooms by the dozen,
right in the middle of the town.
A fine tin roof with
real wooden floors below.
There would 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
"papagaack! papagoooo!
papageeee! papagaack!"
would land like a
trumpet on the ear.
As if to say
"here lives a wealthy man."

If I were a rich man.
Ya ha deedle deedle,
bubba bubba
deedle deedle dum.
All day long
I'd biddy biddy bum.
If I were a wealthy man.
I wouldn't have to work hard.
Ya ha deedle deedle,
bubba bubba
deedle deedle dum.
If I were a biddy biddy rich,
yidle-diddle-didle-didle 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.

The most important men
in town would come
to fawn on me!
They would ask me
to advise them,
Like a Solomon the Wise.
"If you please, Reb Tevye..."
"Pardon me, Reb Tevye..."
Posing problems that
would cross a rabbi's eyes!
Ya va voy ya va voy voy vum..
And it won't make one bit
of dif'rence if I answer
right or wrong.
When you're rich,
they think you really know!

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,
several hours every day.
That would be the
sweetest thing of all.

If I were a rich man.
Ya ha deedle deedle,
bubba bubba
deedle deedle dum.
All day long
I'd biddy biddy bum.
If I were a wealthy man.
I wouldn't have to work hard.
Ya ha deedle deedle,
bubba bubba
deedle deedle 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?

If I Were A Rich Man
From Fiddler On The Roof
Soft karaoke
Words
If I Were A Rich Man
Shanai
Nylon Guitar
Rock Organ
Steel Guitar
Slap Bass 2
Stell Guitar
Strings
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If I Were A RichMan
Seq by M MacDonald
(c) 1994, 1999
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