If I Were a Rich Man

If I were a rich man

Didle diddle diddle digga digga deedle diddle dum

All day long I'd biddy biddy bum

If I were a wealthy man

I wouldn't have to work hard

Didle diddle diddle digga digga deedle diddle dum

If I were a biddy biddy rich

A digga digga deedle diddle 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 could be one long staircase just going up

And one even longer coming down

And one more leading nowhere just for show

Oh, if I were a rich man

Didle digga digga deedle deedle deedle diddle dum

All day long I'd biddy biddy bum

If I were a wealthy man

I wouldn't have to work hard

Didle diddle diddle digga digga deedle diddle dum

If I were a biddy biddy rich

A digga digga deedle diddle man

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

Didle diddle diddle digga digga deedle diddle dum

All day long I'd biddy biddy bum

If I were a wealthy man

I wouldn't have to work hard

Didle diddle diddle digga digga deedle diddle dum

Lord, who made the lion and the lamb

You decreed I should be what I am

You can help me, please do what you can

Help me be a deedle diddle

Oh, I could be so deedle diddle

If I were a wealthy man!