While I Play The Fiddle

The scene is a barroom

In a second rate dive

The address is 3rd street and Vine

And I make the music

To bring out the flavor

Of cigarettes, laughter and wine

My sweetheart, she's dancing

With some total stranger

I'm singing this song from my heart

While I make the music

For honky-tonk people

I'm watching my world fall apart

Hi diddle diddle

Listen my fiddle

Is playing the music she loves so to hear

Forgotten I know

Is the man with the bow

While I play the fiddle

And watching my world disappear

My love for that woman

Is almost as strong as her love for the music I play

But she could not live in

The gardens and flowers

So here's where she's happy to stay

The scene is a barroom

In a second rate dive

On stage is a honky-tonk sound

I'm the one in the middle

Playing honky-tonk fiddle

And watching my world tumble down

Hi diddle diddle

Listen my fiddle

Is playing the music she loves so to hear

Forgotten I know

Is the man with the bow

While I play the fiddle

And watching my world disappear

Hi diddle diddle

Listen my fiddle

Is playing the music she loves so to hear

Forgotten I know

Is the man with the bow

While I play the fiddle

And watching my world disappear