Fiddling About
Fiddling About.
by The Didds
Annual Concert, DMT, Time to act, you and me,
At Dauntsey School, a painted floor, performed in the round,
with rehearsals at Sheep Street church, St Joe's school hall, the con club too,
learning dances, blocking acting, making lovely sounds
Odessa, Ukraine, in 1881,
Kiev and Chernigov , don't forget Poltava
At Taurida, Kherson, Yekaterinoslav,
Violence in Belorussia, and Lithuania
We didn't start the Pogrom
It all began in Russia
Ended up in Prussia
We didn't start the Pogrom
But we tried to show it
On a stage so well lit
Golde, Tevye, crippled horse, this show was a tour de force,
Tzeitel, Hodel, Chava, Shprintze, Bielke too
Rabbi, Reb Mordka, Butcher Lazar, Yente
Motel, Fyedka, what should Perchick do?
Joseph Stalin, Alexander and Tzarin,
Preceded by Black Hundreds, Czar Nicholas, spilling blood
Smela, Kishinev 1903 much death
More trouble, much rubble in Aleksandriya
We didn't start the Pogrom
It all began in Russia
Ended up in Prussia
We didn't start the Pogrom
But we tried to show it
On a stage so well lit
Tevye's House, Mordkha's bar, Siberia's so very far,
Railway, Market Place, Anatevka is our space,
butcher shop, police post, and Frumah-Sarah's ghost,
Grandmother Tzeitel's dead, parents laying in their bed
Death camps, Dachau, Belsen and Auschwitz-Bercenau
Treblinka, Chelmo, Final solution no?
Why these? Just because, Nazi Party, Holocaust,
Reinhard Heydrich and Goeth , Klaus Barbie- butchers three
We didn't start the Pogrom
It all began in Russia
Ended up in Prussia
We didn't start the Pogrom
But we tried to show it
On a stage so well lit
Constable, wedding, broken plates, ripped bedding
Perchik beaten, five chickens not eaten,
Lazar's present rejected, traditions not respected
Yente ignored, candlesticks on the floor
Fleeing Syria, refugees have come so far
Yemen Jews, on the news, pogroms happening today
We didn't start the Pogrom
It all began in Russia
Ended up in Prussia
We didn't start the Pogrom
But we tried to show it
On a stage so well lit
Our musical, tells the truth, its named "Fiddler On The Roof",
Tragic story, happenings gory,
Exit, edict, just a show, but there's nowhere to go,
Taliban, Afghanistan, Jews are hated in Iran,
The middle east, Palestine, muslim jihad, bombed airline
Hatred breeds, refugees, boats sink, while they flea
Just like Tevye's daughters four, off to sleep on Avram's floor
On and on these pointless wars, I can't take it anymore
We didn't start the Pogrom...
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