Music: Jerry Bock/Sheldon Harnick
TEVYE (spoken): After a lifetime, a piece of paper and get thee out.
Rabbi, we’ve been waiting Messiah all our lives, wouldn’t this be a good time for him to come?
RABBI: We’ll have to wait for him someplace else.
GONDE: Well, Anatevka has exactly been the Garden of Eden.
That's true.
After all, what have we got here?
(sung) GONDE: A little bit of this
A little bit of that.
YENTE: A pot,
MORDCHA: A pan,
LAZAR: A broom,
MENDEL: A hat.
TEVYE (Spoken): Someone should have set a match to this place years ago.
A bench, a tree.
LAZAR: So, what's a stove? Or a house?
People who pass through Anatevka don't even know they've been here.
A stick of wood. A piece of cloth.
ALL: What do we leave? Nothing much.
Only Anatevka.
Anatevka, Anatevka.
Underfed, overworked Anatevka.
Where else could Sabbath be so sweet?
Anatevka, Anatevka.
Intimate, obstinate Anatevka,
Where I know everyone I meet.
Soon I'll be a stranger in a strange new place,
Searching for an old familiar face
From Anatevka.
I belong in Anatevka,
Tumble-down, work-a-day Anatevka.
Dear little village, little town of mine
It’s just a place.
Our forefathers have moved forced out many, many places at a moment’s notice.
TEVYE (spoken): maybe that’s why we always wear our hats.