A                     
If I was a rich man,  ya da diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle dum

 Dm              Am                 E                   A 
All day long I'd biddle biddle bum, if i was a wealthy man

::repeat::

A       A7
I'D build A

Dm                   G                   C                          Am 
big tall house with rooms by the dozen, right in the middle of the town

Dm                   G                  A
a fine tin roof with real wooden floors below

                Dm                 G             C                      Am
There would be one long staircase just going up, one even longer coming down

Dm           F#m              E
One leading nowhere just for show



Without our tradition, our lives would be as shaky, as a fiddler on the roof