:. The Fiddlier On The Roof

A man is playing a fiddle on a roof while another man narrates. He talks about the fiddlier and tradition and how he doesn't know how tradition starts. Story begins to show what every villager does as their own tradition. The narriator says without tradition our lifes would be as shakey as a fiddlier on a roof. Two women sit and talk about having the worst husband is better than having no husband. The older woman tries to match the other woman with a husband. Then everyone sings about the matchmaker. The man that was narriating earlier talks to god about poor people and his horse's lame foot and talks to a woman that tells him that he will be late for sabath then begins to sing about being a rich man. The man pulls the wagon by hand because of his horse's lame foot. The man and some other men talk then a man from out of town that goes to a university comes over and talks to them and agrues that the university man does not know what he is talking about then the group decides the man arguing and the university man are both right. The man that pulls the wagon agrees to feed university man for teaching his five daughters about the good book. He brings the man to his house and introduces him to his family and the wife that tells him that he will be late for sabath. The family then prepares for dinner for the sabath. One of the daughters friends who is a tailor wants to ask her father if he can marry her but panics and just says good sabath. The wife tells her husband that a man wants to talk to him after sabath and he finally agrees then they sing about the sabath. The man goes to talk to the man his wife wanted him to. The man is asking the husband about wanting one of his daughters because he is lonely and the husband thinks that he wants to buy a cow at first. He promises to be good Then the husband thinks to himself if he should let him have her then decides that he is a good man and can have her then they sing about drinking to life. While they are singing they make their way to the bar and they all sing and dance to life and the man about to have a wife. The father of the daughter gets news of an upcoming demonstration then dances away with the fiddlier. The university man dances with the fathers oldest daughter who people do in the city after he teaches the others and then the daughter leaves. The father gives the daughter the news that she will be married. She is not very happy about it and neither is the university man but the father and mother are happy about it. The father asks his daughter whats wrong and she says she doesn't want to marry him so she begs him not to force her to marry him and he agrees. The tailor asks the father if he can marry his daughter and the father thinks he is out of his mind and the tailor and the daughter said they pledged to marry one another and then they sing about it. The father thinks about all the possiblities with them to himself and thinks about tradition. Then decides to let them marry. He then remembers that he already told the butcher that he could marry his daughter. The tailor sings about how happy he is.