Lyrics and translation Original Cast - If I Were a Rich Man (From "Fiddler on the Roof")

If I Were a Rich Man (From "Fiddler on the Roof")

Si j'étais un homme riche (De "Le Violon sur le Toit")

If I were a rich man

Si j'étais un homme riche

Didle - deedle - didle- digga - digga - deedle - didle - dum

All day long I'd

Toute la journée je

Biddy - biddy - bum

If I were a wealthy man

Si j'étais un homme riche

Wouldn't have to work hard

Je n'aurais pas besoin de travailler dur

Didle - deedle - didle- digga - digga - deedle - didle - dum

If I were a biddy - biddy rich

Si j'étais un biddy - biddy riche

Digga - digga - deedle - didle man

Digga - digga - deedle - didle homme

I'd build a big tall house with rooms by the dozen

Je construirais une grande maison avec des pièces par douzaines

Right in the middle of the town

En plein milieu de la ville

A fine tin roof

Un beau toit en étain

With a real wooden floors below

Avec de vrais planchers en bois en dessous

There could be one long staircase

Il pourrait y avoir un long escalier

Just going up

Tout simplement en montant

And one even longer coming down

Et un encore plus long en descendant

And one more leading nowhere

Et un autre menant nulle part

Just for show

Juste pour le spectacle

I'd fill be yard with

Je remplirais la cour avec

Chicks and turkies and geese and ducks

Des poules et des dindes et des oies et des canards

For the town to see and hear

Pour que la ville puisse les voir et les entendre

Squarking just as noisely as they can

Criailler aussi fort qu'ils le peuvent

And each loud quack and cluck and gooble and honk

Et chaque coincoin et caquet et gloussement et coincoin

Will land like a trumpet on the ear

Atterrira comme une trompette à l'oreille

As if to say

Comme pour dire

Hear lives a wealthy man

Voici un homme riche

If I were a rich man

Si j'étais un homme riche

Didle - deedle - didle- digga - digga - deedle - didle - dum

All day long I'd

Toute la journée je

Biddy - biddy - bum

If I were a wealthy man

Si j'étais un homme riche

Wouldn't have to work hard

Je n'aurais pas besoin de travailler dur

Didle - deedle - didle- digga - digga - deedle - didle - dum

If I were a biddy - biddy rich

Si j'étais un biddy - biddy riche

Digga - digga - deedle - didle man

Digga - digga - deedle - didle homme

I see my wife, my Golda

Je vois ma femme, ma Golda

Looking like a rich man's wife

Qui a l'air d'une femme d'homme riche

With a proper double chin

Avec un vrai double menton

Supervising meals to her hearts deleight

Supervisant les repas à son plus grand plaisir

I see her putting on airs

Je la vois prendre des airs

And strutting like a peacock

Et se pavaner comme un paon

Oh, what a happy mood she's in

Oh, quelle bonne humeur elle a

Screaming at the servants day and night

Crianter aux serviteurs jour et nuit

If I were rich I'd have the time that I lack

Si j'étais riche j'aurais le temps qu'il me manque

To sit in the synagogue and pray

Pour m'asseoir à la synagogue et prier

Maybe have a seat

Peut-être avoir un siège

By the eastern wall

Près du mur est

And I discuss the Holy book

Et je discuterai du Saint Livre

With the lerned men

Avec les hommes savants

Seven hours every day

Sept heures chaque jour

This would be the sweetest thing of all

Ce serait la chose la plus douce de tout

If I were a rich man

Si j'étais un homme riche

Didle - deedle - didle- digga - digga - deedle - didle - dum

All day long I'd

Toute la journée je

Biddy - biddy - bum

If I were a wealthy man

Si j'étais un homme riche

Wouldn't have to work hard

Je n'aurais pas besoin de travailler dur

Didle - deedle - didle- digga - digga - deedle - didle - dum

Lord who made the lion and the lamb

Seigneur qui a fait le lion et l'agneau

You degreed I should be what I am

Tu as décrété que je devrais être ce que je suis

Would it spoil some vast eternal plan

Est-ce que cela gâcherait un vaste plan éternel

If I were a wealthy man?

Si j'étais un homme riche ?

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Writer(s): Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick

Album

Musical Cast Showstoppers

date of release

14-07-2015

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2 If I Were a Rich Man (From "Fiddler on the Roof")
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18 Movie in My Mind (From "Miss Saigon")
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22 Matchmaker, Matchmaker (From "Fiddler on the Roof")
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