Raising Hope:
Season:     2     / Episode:     7    
Burt's Parents

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Milkman) and other tales by Sholem Aleichem. The story centers on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his family and religious traditions while outside influences encroach upon their lives. He must cope with both the strong-willed actions of his three older daughters-each one's choice of husband moves further away from the customs of her faith-and with the edict of the Tsar that evicts the Jews from their village.

The show revolves around women in the Atlanta metropolitan area juggling their home lives along with fast-paced social and business lives.

Three contestants (occasionally three pairs of contestants) compete against each other to solve a word puzzle, similar to those seen in the game hangman. The name of the show comes from the large wheel that determines the dollar amounts and prizes won (or lost) by the contestants.

1 My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From ev'ry mountainside Let freedom ring! 2 My native country, thee, Land of the noble free, Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills, Like that above. 3 Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom's song; Let mortal tongues awake; Let all that breathe partake; Let rocks their silence break, The sound prolong. 4 Our fathers' God to Thee, Author of liberty, To Thee we sing. Long may our land be bright, With freedom's holy light, Protect us by Thy might, Great God our King. 5 - Additional verse to celebrate Washington's Centennial Our joyful hearts today, Their grateful tribute pay, Happy and free, After our toils and fears, After our blood and tears, Strong with our hundred years, O God, to Thee. 6 - Additional verses by Henry van Dyke We love thine inland seas, Thy groves and giant trees, Thy rolling plains; Thy rivers' mighty sweep, Thy mystic canyons deep, Thy mountains wild and steep,-- All thy domains. 7 Thy silver Eastern strands, Thy Golden Gate that stands Fronting the West; Thy flowery Southland fair, Thy North's sweet, crystal air: O Land beyond compare, We love thee best! 8 - Additional Abolitionist verses by A. G. Duncan, 1843 My country, 'tis of thee, Stronghold of slavery, of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Where men man's rights deride, From every mountainside thy deeds shall ring! 9 My native country, thee, Where all men are born free, if white's their skin; I love thy hills and dales, Thy mounts and pleasant vales; But hate thy negro sales, as foulest sin. 10 Let wailing swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees the black man's wrong; Let every tongue awake; Let bond and free partake; Let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong. 11 Our father's God! to thee, Author of Liberty, to thee we sing; Soon may our land be bright, With holy freedom's right, Protect us by thy might, Great God, our King. 12 It comes, the joyful day, When tyranny's proud sway, stern as the grave, Shall to the ground be hurl'd, And freedom's flag, unfurl'd, Shall wave throughout the world, O'er every slave. 13 Trump of glad jubilee! Echo o'er land and sea freedom for all. Let the glad tidings fly, And every tribe reply, "Glory to God on high," at Slavery's fall.