Chords for Fiddler on the Roof Original Film Soundtrack: If I Were A Rich Man

_ _ Oh, Lord, you made many, many poor people.
I realize, of course, it's no shame to be poor, but it's no great honor either.
So what would have been so terrible if I had a small fortune?
If I were a rich man, _ _ _ _
[G#] all day [C#m] long I'd be the [A#m] visible.
If I were [G#] a wealthy man, [C#] I wouldn't have to work hard. _ _ _ _
_ [G#] If I were a [C#m] very, very rich,
[G#] idle, diddle, diddle, [C#] diddle man,
I'd build [F#m] a big, tall [D#] house with rooms by the dozen,
[E] right in the middle of the [C#] town.
[F#m] A fighting roof and [G#] real wooden floors [C#] below.
_ [F#m] There would be one long [B] staircase just going up,
[E] and one even longer [G#] coming down.
[F#m] And one more [G] leading nowhere just for show.
_ _ I'd [F#] fill my yard with chicks [G#] and turkeys and geese [C#] and ducks
for the town to [A#] see and hear,
_ [D#m] squawking [G#] just as loiserly [C#] as they can.
[F#m] And each lob the key,
[B] _ will land like a [Bm] trumpet on the [C#] ear.
[F#m] As if to say, [G] here lives a wealthy [G#] _ man.
_ _ _ [C#] _
If I were a rich man, _ _ _ _
[G#] all day [C#m] long I'd be the visible.
[D#] If I were a [G#] wealthy man, [C#] I wouldn't have to work hard. _ _ _ _
[G#] If I were [C#m] a very, very rich, [G#] idle, diddle, [C#] diddle, diddle man,
[D#m] I'd see my [F#m] wife, my [B] Goldie,
looking like a rich [C#m] man's wife with a proper [G#] double chin,
_ [F#m] _
[Fm] supervising meals to her [C#] heart's delight.
_ [F#m] I'd see her putting on [B] airs and strutting like a peacock.
Oy, what a [D] happy mood she's in!
[F#m] Screaming [G] at the sevens day [G#] and night,
the _ _ _ _
[B] most important men in town will [C#m] come to follow me.
[F#m] They will ask me to advise them [D] like Solomon the Wise.
[Bm] If you please, Reb Tavio, [G#] pardon me, Reb [F#] Tavio,
[C#] posing problems that would cross a rabbi's eye.
_ [N] _
_ _ [C#] _ _ [D#m] And [C#] _ _
[F#m] it won't make [B] one bit of [E] difference if I answer [G#] right or wrong.
[F#m] When you're [G] rich, they think you really [G#] know. _
[A#] _ _ [F#] If I were rich, I'd have [G#] the time that I like
to [C#] sit in the synagogue and pray,
[A#] [D#m] and maybe have [G#] a seat by the [C#] Eastern Wall,
and [F#m] I'd discuss the holy [B] books with the learned [C#m] men,
seven [G#] hours every day.
[F#m] And that would be the [Gm] sweetest thing of all.
[G#m] _
_ [G#] _ _ [G] If _ [C#] I were a rich man,
_ _ _ _ [G#] all day long I'd bidi-bidi-bump.
[D#] If I were a [G#] wealthy man, [C#] I wouldn't have to work hard. _ _ _ _
[G#] Lord, who made the [C#m] lion and the lamb,
[G#] you decreed [C#m] I should be what I am.
[G#] Would it [C#m] spoil some vast [A#] eternal plan?
[D#]
If I were a wealthy [C#] man. _ _