Song from the musical Fiddler on the Roof. In The Dream, Tevye "wakes up" screaming from a supposed dream he had in which various apparitions, including Tevye's grandmother and the deceased wife of Lazar Wolfe come back from beyond the grave to warn them that their oldest daughter, also named Tzeitel, should not follow the arranged marriage to the butcher, but instead to marry a poor tailor, or be subject to a curse. The made-up dream is Tevye's way of telling his wife that he had consented to let his daughter marry for love instead of by tradition.