Fiddler on the roof Soundtrack: 02 - If I were a rich man Chords

_ _ _ _ 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, I'd have a di-di-di-di-di-di-di-di-di-di-down.
_ _ [G#] All day long [C#m] I'd be-di-di-di-down.
[A#m] If I were a [G#] wealthy man, [C#] I wouldn't have to work hard.
Oh yeah, be-di-di-di-di-di-di-di-di-di-di-down.
_ [G#] _ If I were [C#] a be-di-di [C#m]-di-di-rich, [G] idle [G#]-deedle [C#]-diddle-idle man, _ _
[D#m] I'd [C#] build a [F#m] big tall house [D#] with rooms by the dozen [E] right in the middle of [C#] the 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 and [E] one even longer [G#] coming down.
[C#] _ [F#m] And one more leading [G] nowhere just for [G#] show. _ _
_ _ _ _ [D#] _ [F#] I'd fill my yard with chicks [G#] and turkeys and geese [C#] and ducks for the town [A#] to see and hear,
_ _ [D#m] _ squawking just [G#] as loiserly as [C#] they can. _ _ _
And each loud [F#m] ba-di-di-di-di-di-di-di [B]-di-di-di-da-di-di-di-di-ka
[E] Will end like a trumpet on the [C#] ear
_ [F#m] As if to say [G] here lives a _ wealthy [G#] man
_ _ [A#] _
_ [G#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C#] _ _ If I were a rich man
The yubba dubba dubba dubba dubba dubba dubba dubba
_ _ [G#] All day [C#m] long I bidda [E] bidda bidda
[A#m] If I were a [G#] wealthy man
[C#] I wouldn't have to work hard
The yubba dubba [C#] dubba dubba dubba dubba dubba dubba
_ [D#] _ [G#] If I [C#m] were a bidda bidda rich
[A#] _ [G#] Idle diddle [C#] diddle diddle man
_ I [D#m]
see [C#] my [F#m] wife, my goldie
[B] Looking like a rich man's [C#m] wife
With a proper [G#] double chin
_ _ [F#m] _ _ [Fm] Supervising meals to her [C#] heart's delight _ _ _
I [F#m] see her putting on [B] airs and strutting like a [E] peacock
Oi, what a happy [D] mood she's in
[C#] _ _ [F#m] _ Screaming at [G] the servants day [G#] and night
_ _ The _ [E] _ [D] _ _ _ [B] most [G#] important men in [C#m] town will come to follow me
[F#m] _ They will ask me to advise them
[D] Like Solomon the Wise
[C#] _
[Bm] If you please, Reb _ Tavier
[D] Pardon [G#] me, Reb [F#] Tavier
_ [C#] _ Posing problems that would cross [F] a rabbi's _ eye
Yadda [N] dee da da
Yadda dee da [C#] da _ _ [D#m] Daaaa
_ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ [F#m] And it won't [B] make one bit of difference
[E] If I answer right or [G#] wrong
_ [C#] _ [F#m] When you're rich [G] they think you really [G#] know _ _ _
_ _ _ _ If [F#] I were rich I'd have the [G#]
time
That I like to sit [C#] in the synagogue [F] and pray
[A#] _ [D#m] And maybe [G#] have a seat by the eastern [C#] wall _ _
_ And I [F#m] discuss the holy [B] books with the learned [C#m] men
[E] Seven [G#] hours every [C#] day
_ [F#m] And that would be the [Gm] _ sweetest thing of all
[G#] _ _ [G#m] _ _ [G#] _ _ _ _
_ [G] Oi
_ _ _ _ [C#]
If I were a rich man
Yadda dee da da
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G#] All _ day long [C#m] I'd biddy biddy bum
[D#] If I were a [G#] wealthy man
I [C#] _ wouldn't have to work hard
Yadda dee da da _ _ _ _ _
Lord [G#] _ who made [C#m] the lion and the lamb
[G#] You decreed [C#m] I should be what I am
_ [G#] Wouldn't spoil some [C#m] vast eternal [A#] plan
_ _ [D#] If I were a wealthy _ _ [C#]
man _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A#m] _ _ [D#] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _