If I was a rich man, ya da diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle dum All day long I'd biddle biddle bum, if i was a wealthy man ::repeat:: I' build 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, one even longer coming down One leading nowhere just for show Without our tradition, our lives would be as shaky, as a fiddler on the roof