To Life

TEVYE: "To our agreement, to our prosperity. To good health and happiness. And most important,"
To life, to life, l'chaim
TEVYE AND LAZAR: L'chaim, l'chaim, to life
TEVYE: Here's to the father I've tried to be
LAZAR: Here's to my bride to be
BOTH: Drink, l'chaim, to life, to life, l'chaim
L'chaim, l'chaim, to life
TEVYE: Life has a way of confusing us
LAZAR: Blessing and bruising us
LAZAR: Drink, l'chaim, to life
TEVYE: God would like us to be joyful
Even when our hearts lie panting on the floor
LAZAR: How much more can we be joyful
When there's really something
To be joyful for
BOTH: To life, to life, l'chaim
TEVYE: To Tzeitel, my daughter
LAZAR: My wife
It gives you something to think about
TEVYE: Something to drink about
BOTH: Drink, l'chaim, to life
LAZAR - (spoken): "Reb Mordcha."
MORDCHA - (spoken): "Yes, Lazar Wolf."
LAZAR - (spoken): "Drinks for everybody."
MENDEL - (spoken): "What's the occasion?"
LAZAR - (spoken): "I'm taking myself a bride."
ALL - (spoken): "Who? ... Who?"
LAZAR -(spoken): "Tevye's eldest, Tzeitel."
ALL - (spoken): "Mazeltove... wonderful... congratulations."
ALL - (sung): To Lazar Wolf
TEVYE: To Tevye
ALL: To Tzeitel, your daughter
LAZAR: My wife
ALL: May all your futures be pleasant ones
Not like our present ones
Drink, l'chaim, to life
To life, l'chaim
L'chaim, l'chaim, to life
It takes a wedding to make us say
Let's live another day
Drink, l'chaim, to life
We'll raise a glass and sip a drop of schnapps
In honor of the great good luck
That favored you
We know that
When good fortune favors two such men
It stands to reason we deserve it too
To us and our good fortune
Be happy, be healthy, long life
And if our good fortune never comes
Here's to whatever comes
Drink, l'chaim, to life
Dai-dai-dai-dai-dai-dai-dai
Dai-dai-dai-dai-dai-dai-dai
Dai-dai-dai-dai-dai-dai-dai
Dai-dai-dai-dai-dai-dai-dai
Dai-dai-dai-dai-dai-dai-dai
Dai-dai-dai-dai-dai-dai-dai
Dai-dai-dai-dai-dai-dai-dai
Dai-dai-dai-dai-dai-dai-dai
RUSSIAN: Za va shas da rovia
Heaven bless you both nazdrovia
To your health and may we live together in peace
Za va shas da rovia
Heaven bless you both nazdrovia
To your health and may we live together in peace
May you both be favored with the future of your choice
May you live to see a thousand reasons to rejoice
ALL: Za va shas da rovia
Heaven bless you both nazdrovia
To your health and may we live together in peace!

BOTH: To life!