Every tone's worth playing until the last torn string To help you carry on I'll let my fiddle sing So high above the ground so dangerous and steep To guide you with my sound, a promise that I'll keep While all my bowing's silent so concise all my strokes Yet my tone so violent, and deadly is his smoke My scream is voiceless, howling in the dark Piercing through your brain and straight into your heart Can you hear the chime? My melody and rhyme Where ever you go, whatever you do The fiddler on the roof And every note I play tonight will find a listening ear The dragon's breath a beam of light for just one man to hear They never see me moving, I watch my audience faint Predict what they are doing and clean up every taint So this is the last song, for the dragon violin Bring justice from above, ransom for the sin My bow and string will never sing again And soon I will be gone, but one day you will reign Can you hear the chime? High up on the gables is where I will remain You'll be getting famous I'll just be a name A long forgotten hero With a story that you can tell How I loved you and our freedom And how I played this song so well