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Far From the Home I Love Lyrics by Julia Migenes, Zero Mostel

Fiddler on the Roof

1964

[TEVYE, spoken]
So you are leaving your home to join that hero of yours
But why won't you tell me where he is?
[HODEL, spoken]
It is far, Papa, terribly far
He was arrested
He is in a settlement in Siberia
[TEVYE, spoken]
Siberia!
And he asked you to join him in that frozen wasteland, and marry him there?
[HODEL, spoken]
No, Papa, he did not ask me to go
I want to go
[TEVYE, spoken]
But Hodel, baby...
[HODEL, spoken]
But Papa...
[HODEL]
How can I hope to make you understand
Why I do what I do?
Why I must travel to a distant land
Far from the home I love
Once I was happily content to be
As I was, where I was
Close to the pеople who are close to mе
Here in the home I love
Who could see that a man would come
Who would change the shape of my dreams?
Helpless now I stand with him
Watching older dreams grow dim
Oh, what a melancholy choice this is
Wanting home, wanting him
Closing my heart to every hope but his
Leaving the home I love
There where my heart has settled long ago
I must go, I must go
Who could imagine I'd be wandering so
Far from the home I love?
Yet there with my love, I'm home
[TEVYE, spoken]
Well, give him my regards, this Moses of yours
I always thought he was a good man
Tell him I rely on his honor to treat my daughter well
Tell him that
[HODEL, spoken]
Papa, God alone knows when we shall see each other again
[TEVYE, spoken]
Then we will leave it in his hands
[HODEL]
There where my heart has settled long ago
I must go, I must go
Who could imagine I'd be wandering so
Far from the home I love?
Yet there with my lover, I'm home
Credits
Julia Migenes

Julia Migenes

Zero Mostel

Zero Mostel

About “Far From the Home I Love” by Julia Migenes

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