♪ If I were a rich man ♪ Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum ♪ All day long I'd biddy biddy bum ♪ If I were a wealthy man ♪ I wouldn't have to work hard ♪ Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum ♪ If I were a biddy biddy rich ♪ Idle-diddle didle-didle man ♪ I'd build a big tall house with rooms by the dozen ♪ Right in the middle of Schönbrunn ♪ 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 [squawking] ♪ Would land like a trumpet on the ear ♪ As if to say, "Here lives a wealthy man" ♪♪ Bah!

♪ If I were a rich man [vocalizing] ♪ All day long I'd biddy biddy bum ♪ If I were a wealthy man ♪ I wouldn't have to work hard [vocalizing] ♪ If I were a biddy biddy rich ♪ Idle-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 ♪ Oh, 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 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 a rabbi's eyes ♪ Would cross the rabbi's eyes [vocalizing] ♪♪ ♪And it won't make one bit of difference ♪ 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 ♪ Seven hours every day ♪ This would be the sweetest thing of all