Far From the Home I Love

Lyrics

[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