If I Were A Rich Man

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[Verse 1]
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If I were a rich man, daidel diedel, daidel, daidel, daidel, diedel, daidel, dum
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All day long I'd, biddy biddy bum
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If I were a wealthy man

[Verse 2]
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I wouldn't have to work hard, daidel diedel, daidel, daidel, daidel, diedel, daidel, dum
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If I were a biddy, biddy rich, daidel, daidel, diedel, daidel, man

[Verse 3]
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I'd - build - a - big tall house, with rooms by the dozen
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Right in the middle of the town

[Verse 4]
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A fine tin roof, with real wooden floors below
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There-would-be one long staircase, just going up
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And one more even comin' down
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One more leading nowhere, just for show

[Verse 5]
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I'd - fill - my - yard with fowl, with chicks, geese and turkeys
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And ducks for one and all the time
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 Squawking just, as noisily, as they can

[Verse 6]
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And each loud:  pappachee, pappacha, pappachoe, pappacho
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Would land like a trumpet in the ear
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As if to say, here lives a wealthy man       ai,ai,ai, ai,ai,ai, ai,ai

(Pause)

[Verse 1]
A
If I were a rich man, daidel diedel, daidel, daidel, daidel, diedel, daidel, dum
E                 Am
All day long I'd, biddy biddy bum
B7          A       E
If I were a wealthy man

[Verse 7]
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I wouldn't have to work hard, daidel diedel, daidel, daidel, daidel, diedel, daidel, dum
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Lord, who made the lion and the lamb, you decreed I should be what I am
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Would it spoil some vast eternal plan?

[Outro]
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   If, I were a.... wealthy....man....? (strokes)