Posted by Steve Dedman on October 01, 2003 at 11:58:03:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: National Symphony Tuba Audition Results posted by Daddy W. on September 30, 2003 at 21:02:05:
Joe,
You missin' some pit gigs lately? You seem to be pining for show tunes...
How about:
If I were a rich man
Daidle deedle daidle
digguh digguh deedle daidle dum
All day long I'd biddy biddy bum
If I were a wealthy man
I wouldn't have to work hard
Daidle deedle daidle
digguh digguh deedle daidle dum
If I were a biddy biddy rich
Digguh digguh deedle daidle man
I'd build a 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 small 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 quack and cluck and gobble and honk
Will land like a trumpet on the ear
As if to say here lives a wealthy man
If I were a rich 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 it town
Will come to fawn on me
They will ask me to advise them
Like Solomon The Wise
"If you please Reb Tevye" "Pardon me, Reb Tevye"
Poising problems that would cross a Rabbi's eyes.
(he chants)
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.
(Sigh)
If I were a rich man
Daidle deedle daidle
digguh digguh deedle daidle dum
All day long I'd biddy biddy bum
If I were a wealthy man
I wouldn't have to work hard
Daidle deedle daidle
digguh digguh deedle daidle dum
Lord, who made the lion and the lamb
You decreed I should be what I am
Would it spoil some vast eternal plan
If I were a wealthy man?