Standard (EADGBE)

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