Evita
BUENOS AIRES,1952
It is my sad duty to inform you that Eva Peron...
spiritual leader of the nation...
entered immortality...
at eight twenty five this evening
CHIVILCOY,1926
You are not welcome here
He was the father of my children too
They have a right to see him, to pay their last respects
You're not his wife your children are bastards!
Eva!
Eva. Eva
Eva!
No. No. He's my Papa! He's my Papa!
Papa! Papa! He's my Papa!
Papa!
He's my Papa! He's my Papa!
Requiem aeternum...
Oh what a circus! Oh what a show
Argentina has gone to town...
over the death of an actress called Eva Peron
We've all gone crazy mourning all day and mourning all night...
falling over ourselves to get all of the misery right
Oh what an exit! That's how to go
When they're ringing your curtain down...
demand to be buried like Eva Peron
It's quite a sunset...
and good for the country in a round about way
We've made the front page of all...
the world's papers today
But who is this Santa Evita?
Why all this howling hysterical sorrow?
What kind of goddess has lived among us?
How will we ever get by without her?
She had her moments,she had some style
The best show in town was the crowd...
outside the Casa Rosada crying Eva Peron
But that's all gone now
As soon as the smoke from the funeral clears...
we're all gonna see and how she did nothing for years!
You let down your people Evita
You were supposed to have been immortal
That's all they wanted, not much to ask for
But in the end you could not deliver
Sing you fools! But you got it wrong
Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long
Your queen is dead,your king is through
She's not coming back to you
Show business kept us all alive
since seventeen October 1945
But the star has gone... The glamour's worn thin...
That's a pretty bad state for a state to be in
Instead of government we had a stage
Instead of ideas a prima donna's rage
Instead of help we were given a crowd
She didn't say much,but she said it loud
Sing you fools! But you got it wrong
Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long
Your queen is dead,your king is through
She's not coming back to you
Don't cry for me Argentina...
for I am ordinary,unimportant...
and undeserving of such attention
Unless we all are,I think we all are
So share my glory. So share my coffin
It's our funeral too
JUNIN,1936
Senor Magaldi? It's seven o'clock
You'll be late
Now Eva Peron had every disadvantage you need if you're gonna succeed
No money,no cash
No father,no bright light
There was nowhere she'd been at the age of fifteen
As this tango singer found out...
Agustin Magaldi who has the distinction of being the first man...
to be of use to Eva Duarte
On this night of a thousand stars...
let me take you to heaven's door
Where the music of love's guitars plays forever more
In the glow of those twinkling lights...
we shall love through eternity
On this night in a million nights...
fly away with me
I never dreamed that a kiss could be as sweet as this but now I know that it can
I use to wander alone without a love of my own. I was a desperate man
But all my grief disappeared and all the sorrow I'd feared wasn't there any more
On that magical day when you first came my way
mi amor
On this night. On this night. On this night of a thousand stars...
let me take you to heaven's door
Where the music of love's guitars plays forever more
To think that a man as famous as you are...
could love a poor little nothing like me
Eva
I wanna be a part of B.A. Buenos Aires,Big Apple
She wants to be a part of B.A. Buenos Aires Big Apple... Big Apple
Just listen to that...
they're on to you,Magaldi
I'd get out while you can
It's happened at last. I'm starting to get started
I'm moving out with my man
Now Eva don't get carried away
Monotony past. Suburbia departed
Who could ever be fond of the back of beyond?
Don't hear words that I didn't say
What's that? You'd desert the girl you love?
"The girl I love?"
What are you talking about?
She really brightened up your out of town engagement
She gave you all she had. She wasn't in your contract
You must be quite relieved that no one's told the papers
So far!
I wanna be a part of B.A. Buenos Aires - Big Apple
Would I have done what I did... if I hadn't thought... if I hadn't known...
we would stay together?
Seems to me there's no point in resisting
She's made up her mind,you've no choice
Why don't you be the man who discovered her?
You'll never be remembered for your voice
The city can be paradise for those who have the cash the class & the connections
what you need to make a splash!
The likes of you get swept up in the morning with the trash
If you were rich or middle class
Screw the middle clases! I will never accept them
My father's other family were middle class
And we were kept out of sight hidden from view at his funeral
Do all your one night stands give you this trouble?
Eva,beware of the city
It's hungry and cold can't be controlled
It is mad
Those who are fools are swallowed up whole...
and those who are not become what they should not become changed
In short they go bad
Bad is good for me
I'm bored so clean and so ignored
I've only been predictable! Respectable!
Birds fly out of here so why
on why,oh why the hell can't I?
I only want variety of society
I wanna be a part of B.A. Buenos Aires,Big Apple!
She wants to be a part of B.A. Buenos Aires. Big Apple!
Five years from now I shall come back...
and finally say you have your way,come to town
But you'll look at me with a foreigner's eyes
The magical city. A younger girl's city. A fantasy long since put down
All you've done to me was that a young girl's fantasy?
I've played your city games all right,didn't I?
I already know what cooks. How the dirty city feels and looks!
I tasted it last night,didn't I?
I'm gonna be a part of B.A. Buenos Aires. Big Apple
She's gonna be a part of B.A. Buenos Aires,Big Apple
Eva,beware your ambition...
it's hungry and cold can't be controlled,will run wild
This in a man is danger enough...
but you are a woman,not even a woman...
not very much more than a child
And what ever you say
I'll not steal you away
What's new,Buenos Aires?
I'm new. I wanna say I'm just a little stuck on you. You'll be on me too
I get out here,Buenos Aires
Stand back. You ought to know
what you're gonna get in me
Just a little touch of star quality
Fill me up with your heat,with your noise,with your dirt overdo me
Let me dance to your beat,make it loud,let it hurt,run it through me
Don't hold back,you are certain to impress...
Tell the driver,this is where I'm staying
Hello,Buenos Aires
Get this,just look at me dressed up somewhere to go. We'll put on a show
Take me out at your flood, give me speed,give me lights
Set me humming
Shoot me up with your blood,wine me up with your nights watch me coming
All I want is a whole lot of excess
Tell the singer this is where I'm playing
Stand back,Buenos Aires
Because you ought know what you're...
gonna get in me
Just a little touch of star quality
And if ever I go too far it's because of the things you are beautiful town
And if I need a moment's rest
Give your lover the very best real eiderdown and silence
You're a tramp you're a treat you will shine to the death
You are shoddy
But you're flesh you are meat you shall have every breath in my body
Put me down for a lifetime of success
Give me credit. I'll find ways of paying
Rio de la Plata!
Florida! Correntes! Nueve de Julio!
All I want to know
Stand back,Buenos Aires
Because you ought to know
what you're gonna get in me
Just a little touch of... Just a little touch of star quality
Papa!
Papa! Papa! Papa! Papa!
Hello angel
I don't expect my love affairs to last for long
Never fool myself that my dreams will come true
Being used to trouble I anticipate it...
but all the same I hate it wouldn't you?
So what happens now? So what happens now?
Take your picture off another wall
Where am I going to? You'll get by you always have before
Time and time again... I've said that I don't care
That I'm immune to gloom
That I'm hard through and through
But every time it matters all my words desert me
So anyone can hurt me and they do
So what happens now? Another suitcase in another hall
Where am I going to? Where am I going to?
Call in three months time and I'll be fine
I know. Well maybe not that fine but I'll survive anyhow
I won't recall the names...
and places of each sad occasion
But that's no consolation here and now
So what happens now? Another suitcase in another hall
Where am I going to? You'll get by you always have before. Where am I going to?
Don't ask anymore
Goodnight and thank you whoever
She is in every magazine been photographed,seen
she is known
We don't like to rush,but your case has been packed
If she's missed anything you could give her a ring...
but she won't always answer the phone
Oh but it's sad when a love affair dies but we have pretended enough
It's best that we part, stop fooling ourselves
Which means...
There is no one,no one at all
Never has been and never will be a lover. Male or female...
who hasn't an eye on in fact they rely on tricks they can try on their partner
They're hoping their lover will help them or keep them. Support them,promote them
Don't blame them you're the same
Goodnight and thank you Emilio
You've completed your task what more can we ask of you now?
Please sign the book on the way out the door...
and that will be all. If she needs you she'll call
But I don't think that's likely somehow
Oh but it's sad when a love affair dies
But when we were hot we were hot!
I know you'll look back on the good times we shared
Which means...
There is no one,no one at all...
Never has been and never will be a lover male or female
who hasn't an eye on in fact they rely on tricks they can try on their partner
They're hoping their lover will help them or keep them support them,promote them
Don't blame her you're the same
There is no soap,no soap like Zaz
No detergent,lotion or oil with such power in the shower
It's the mother & father of luxury lather. The talk of the bath,the great ointment
One little frolic with new Zaz carbolic...
you're scented,you'll be sent
Good night and thank you Senor Jabon
We are grateful you found her a spot on the sound radio
We'll think of you every time she's on the air
We'd love you to stay, but you'd be in the way
So do up your trousers and go
Oh but it's sad when a love affair dies
The decline into silence and doubt. Our passion was just too intense too survive
Which means...
This is a club I should never have joined
Someone has made us look fools
Argentine men call the sexual shots
Someone has altered the rules
Fame on the wireless as far as it goes it all very well
but every girl knows...
She needs a man she can monopolize...
with fingers in dozens of different pies
Oh but it's sad when a love affair dies
In June of forty-three
there was a military coup
Behind it was a gang called the G.O.U.
Who did not feel the need to be elected
They had themselves a party at the point of a gun
They were slightly to the right of Attilla the Hun
A bomb or two and very few objected
Yeah,just one shell and governments fall like flies
Kapow! Die!
They stumble and fall
Bye-bye!
Backs to the wall. Aim high!
We're having a ball
The tank and bullet rule as democracy dies
The lady's got potential she was setting her sights...
on making it in movies with her name in lights
The greatest social climber since Cinderella
O.K. she couldn't act,but she had the right friends...
and we all know a career depends on knowing the right fella to be stellar
Yeah,just one shell and governments lose their nerve
Kapow! Die!
They stumble and fall
Bye-bye!
Backs to the wall. Aim high!
We're having a ball
That's how we get the government we deserve
Now the man behind the President calling the shots...
involved so discreetly in a lot of their plots...
was Colonel Juan Peron...
a would be dictator
He began in the army out in Italy so...
saw Mussolini's rise from the very front row...
and reckoned he'd do likewise sooner or later
Yeah,just one blast and the tear gas falls like rain
Kapow! Die!
They haven't a chance
Bye-bye!
The terrors advance...
but one guy doesn't dirty his hands
Peron was biding time out in the slow lane
Yeah,suddenly
an earthquake hit the town of San Juan!
Kapow! Die!
They stumble and fall
Bye-bye!
Keep away from the wall
But one guy was having a ball
The tragedy a golden chance for Peron
He organized a concert with incredible flair...
in aid of all the victims, such a grand affair
Politicians,actors,stars of every flavor
It was on January twenty second in nineteen forty four
A night to remember yeah,that's for sure
For that's the night that Peron first met Eva
On this night of a thousand stars...
let me take you to heaven's door
Where the music of love's guitars plays forever more
Ladies and gentlemen,Augustin Magaldi!
Magaldi!
Eva Duarte?
Your act hasn't changed much
Neither has yours
I stand here as a servant of the people...
as we come together for a marvelous cause
You've shown by your presence your deeds and applause...
what the people can do true power is yours not the government's...
unless it represents the people
Peron! Peron!
Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron!
Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron!
One always picks the easy fight one praises fools...
one smothers light... One shifts from left to right
Politices,the art of the possible
Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron!
Excuse me
Colonel Peron?
Eva Duarte?
I've heard so much about you
I am amazed... for I'm only an actress... for I am only a soldier!
Nothing to shout about only a girl on the air
One of the thousands defending the country he loves
But when you act the things you do affect us all
But when you act... you take us away from the squalor of the real world
Are you here on your own?
Yes. Oh,yes
So am I. What a fortunate coincidence
Maybe you're my reward for my efforts here tonight
It seems crazy,but you must believe...
there's nothing calculated, nothing planned
Please forgive me if I seem naive
I would never want to force your hand...
but please understand I'd be good for you
I don't always rush in like this...
twenty seconds after saying hello
Telling strangers I'm too good to miss
If I'm wrong I hope you tell me so
But you really should know I'd be good for you
I'd be surprisingly good for you
I won't go on if I'm boring you...
but do you understand my point of view?
Do you like what you hear what you see
and would you be good for me too?
I'm not talking of a hurried night
A frantic tumble then a shy good-bye
Creeping home before it gets too light
That's not the reason that I caught your eye
Which has to imply I'd be good for you
I'd be surprisingly good for you
Please go on you enthrall me!
I can understand you perfectly...
and I like what I hear,what I see
and knowing me... I would be good for you too
I'm not talking of a hurried night
A frantic tumble then a shy good-bye
Creeping home before it gets too light
That's not the reason that I caught your eye
Which has to imply I'd be good for you
I'd be surprisingly good for you
There is no one,no one at all never has been...
and never will be a lover male or female
who hasn't an eye on in fact they rely on tricks they can try on their partner
They're hoping their lover will help them or keep them support them,promote them
don't blame them. You're the same
Hello and good-bye!
I've just unemployed you. You can go back to school
You've had a good run. I'm sure he enjoyed you
Don't act sad or surprised. Let's be friends,civilized
Come on little one!
Don't sit there like a dummy!
The day you knew would arrive is here
You'll survive
So move,funny face!
I like your conversation. You've a catchy turn of phrase
You're obviously going through some adolescent phase
So what happens now? So what heppens now? Where am I going to?
You'll get by you always have before
Where am I going to?
Don't ask anymore
At the watering holes of the well-to-do
I detect a resistance to our heroine's style
We're glad you noticed!
The shooting sticks of the upper class...
aren't supporting a single ass that would rise for the girl
she'll take a mile!
Such a shame she wandered into our enclosure
How unfortunate this person has forced us to be blunt
No we wouldn't mind seeing her at Harrod's
But behind the jewelry counter not in front
Could there be in our fighting corps a lack of enthusiasm for Peron's latest flame?
You said it,brother!
Should you wish to cause great distress...
in the tidiest officer's mess just mention her name
That isn't funny!
Peron is a fool,breaking every taboo...
installing the girl in the Army H.Q.
And she's an actress the last straw
Her only good parts are between her thighs
She should stare at the ceiling not reach for the skies
Or she could be his last whore
The evidence suggests she has other interests
If it's her who's using him
he's exceptionally dim
Bitch!
Dangerous Jade!
We have allowed ourselves to slip. We have completely lost our grip
We have declined to an all-time low
Tarts have become the set to know
I am only a radio star...
with just one weekly show
But speaking as one of the people...
I want you to know
We are tired of the decline of Argentina
With no sign of a government able to give us the things we deserve
It's no crime for officers to do as they please...
as long as they're discreet and keep clear of disease
But once they allow a bit on the side...
to move to the center where she's not qualified
We are forced to mark his card
She should get into her head... she should not get out of bed
She should know she's not paid...
to be loud,but to be laid
Slut!
Dangerous Jade!
This has really been your year Miss Duarte
Tell us where you go from here Miss Duarte
Which are the roles that you yearn to play?
Whom did you sleep-dine with yesterday?
Acting is limiting,the lines not mine
That's no help to the Argentine
Can we assume then that you'll quit?
Is this because of your involvement with Colonel... Peron?
Goodnight and thank you
She won't be kept happy by her nights on the tiles
She says it's his body
but she's after his files
So get back on to the street
She should get into her head...
She should not get out of bed
She should know that she's not paid...
to be loud,but to be laid
The evidence suggests she has other interests
If it's her who's using him...
he's exceptionally dim
Things have reached a pretty pass
When someone pretty lower class graceless and vulgar,uninspired...
can be accepted and admired
MUERTE PERON
Dice are rolling. The knives are out
Would-be presidents are all around
I don't say they mean harm but they'd each give an arm to see us 6 feet under ground
It doesn't matter what those morons say
Our nation's leaders are a feeble crew
There's only twenty of them anyway
What is twenty next to millions who are looking to you
All you have to do is sit and wait keeping out of everybody's way
We'll... You'll be handed power on a plate
When the ones who matter have their say
And with chaos installed...
you can reluctantly agree to be called
There again we could be foolish not to quit while we're ahead
For distance lends enchantment and that is why all exiles are distinguished...
more important,they're not dead
I could find job satisfaction in Paraguay
This is crazy,defeatist talk
Why commit political suicide?
There's no risk. There's no call for any action at all...
when you have unions on your side
Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron!
Peron! Peron! Peron!
Don't let them take you
Eva,I have to go
No!
No! No!
Peron! Peron! Peron!
Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron!
DETAINED B Y MILITARY POLICE
PEOPLE RALLY FOR PERON
A new Argentina!
The chains of the masses untied
A new Argentina!
The voice of the people cannot be denied!
There is only one man who can lead any worker's regime
He lives for your problems...
he shares your ideals and your dream
He supports you,for he loves you...
understands you,is one of you
If not how could he love me?
A new Argentina!
The worker's battle song!
A new Argentina!
The voice of the people rings out loud and long!
Now I am a worker,I've suffered the way that you do
I've been unemployed and I've starved,and I've hated it too
But I've found my salvation in Peron
may the nation let him save them as he saved me
A new Argentina!
A new age about to begin!
A new Argentina!
We face the world together. And no dissent within
There again we could be foolish not to quit while we're ahead
I can see us many miles away,inactive
Sipping cocktails on a terrace. Taking breakfast in bed
Sleeping easy,doing nothing. It's attractive
Don't think I don't think like you. I often get those nightmares too
They always take some swallowing
Sometimes it's very difficult to keep momentum if it's you that you are following
Don't close doors. Keep an escape clause
Because we might loose The Big Apple
But would I have done what I did if I hadn't thought if I hadn't known...
we would take the country?
Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron!
Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron!
Peron has resigned from the army and this we avow
The descamisados are those he is marching with now
He supports you! For he loves you!
Understands you! Is one of you!
If not,how could he love me?
A new Argentina!
The chains of the masses untied
A new Argentina!
The voice of the people cannot be and must not be denied
Release him
Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron!
Amen
How annoying that they have to fight elections for their cause
The inconvenience having to get a majority
If normal methods of persuasion fail to win them applause
There are other ways of establishing authority
UNION DEMOCRATICA
PERON PERON
UNION DEMOCRATICA
PERON
VIVA PERON
PERON SERA EL FUTURO PRESIDENTE
PERON VICTORY DEMOCRACIA
Colonel Juan Domingo 690,000 VOTES CAST IN BUENOS AIRES
A new Argentina!
The chains of the masses untied!
A new Argentina!
The voice of the people cannot be and will not be and must not be denied!
People of Argentina...
your newly-elected President,Juan Peron
Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron!
Argentinos!
Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron!
Argentinos!
We are all workers now...
fighting against our common enemies...
poverty social injustice...
foreign domination of our industries!
Reaching for our common goal...
our independence,our dignity our pride!
Let the world know that our great nation is awakening...
and that it's heart beats in the humble bodies of Juan Peron...
and his wife...
the first lady of Argentina...
Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron!
Evita! Evita!
It won't be easy you'll think it strange when I try to explain how I feel
That I still need your love after all that I've done
You won't believe me
All you will see is a girl you once knew
Although she's dressed up to the nines at sixes and sevens with you
I had to let it happen
I had to change. Couldn't stay all my life down at heel...
Iooking out of the window staying out of the sun
So I choose freedom. Running around trying everything new...
but nothing impressed me at all. I never expected it to
Don't cry for me Argentina
The truth is I never left you
All though my wild days my mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance
And as for fortune and as for fame I never invited them in
Though it seemed to the world they were all I desired
They are illusions. They're not the solutions they promise to be
The answer was here all the time
I love you and hope you love me
Don't cry for me Argentina
Don't cry for me Argentina!
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days my mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance
Have I said too much?
There's nothing more I can think of to say to you
But all you have to do is look at me...
to know that every word is true!
Just listen to that the voice of Argentina!
We are adored! We are loved!
Statesmanship is more than entertaining peasants
We shall see little man
Evita Peron!
I am only a simple woman...
who lives to serve Peron in his noble crusade to rescue his people
I was once as you are now
And I promise you this
We will take the riches from your oligarchs
Only for you! For all of you!
And one day you too will inherit these treasures!
Descamisados!
When they fire those cannons
When the crowds sing of glory...
it is not just for Peron...
but for all of us! For all of us!
Things have reached a pretty pass...
when someone pretty lower class can be respected and admired
But our privileged class is dead
Look who they are calling for now
High flying,adored
So young,the instant queen
A rich,beautiful thing
Of all the talents,a cross between a fantasy of the bedroom and a saint
You were just a back street girl
Hustling and fighting,scratching and biting
High flying,adored
Did you believe in your wildest moments all this would be yours...
that you'd become the lady of them all?
Were the stars in your eyes when you crawled in at night...
from the bars,from the sidewalks? From the gutter theatrical?
Don't look down it's a long,long way to fall
High flying,adored?
What happens now? Where do you go from here?
For someone on top of the world the view is not exactly clear
A shame you did it all,at twenty-six
There are no mysteries now
Nothing can thrill you
No one fulfill you
High flying,adored
I hope you come to terms with boredom
So famous,so easily,so soon is not the wisest thing to be
You won't care if they love you it's been done before
You'll despair if they hate you
You'll be dried of all energy
All the young who've made it would agree
High flying,adored
That's good to hear,but unimportant
My story's quite usual
Local girl makes good weds famous man
I was slap in the right place at the perfect time
Filled a gap. I was lucky
But one thing I'll say for me
No one else can fill it like I can
There again I've more to do than simply get the message through
I haven't started
Let's get this show on the road
Let's make it obvious Peron is off and rolling
Eyes! Hair!
Mouth! Figure!
Dress! Voice!
Style! Movement!
Hands! Magic! Rings!
Glamour! Face! Diamonds! Excitement!
Image!
I came from the people
They need to adore me so Christian Dior me
From my head to my toes. I need to be dazzling
I want to be Rainbow High!
They must have excitement and so must I
Eyes! Hair!
Mouth! Figure!
Dress! Voice!
Style! Image!
I'm their product it's vital you sell me so Machiavell me
Make an Argentine Rose!
I need to be thrilling!
I want to be Rainbow High!
They need their escape and so do I
Eyes! Hair!
Mouth! Figure!
Dress! Voice!
Style! Movement!
Hands! Magic! Rings!
Glamour! Face! Diamonds! Excitement!
Image!
All my descamisados expect me to...
outshine the enemy
I won't disappoint them
I'm their savior! That's what they call me.
so Lauren Bacall me
Anything goes to make me fantastic.
I have to be Rainbow High in magical colors
You're not decorating a girl for a night on the town...
and I'm not a second-rate queen
getting kicks with a crown!
Flash must be quick because it will be overlaped
Next stop will be Europe!
The Rainbow's gonna tour dressed up somewhere to go
We'll put on a show
Look out mighty Europe
Because you ought to know what you're gonna get in me
Just a little touch of... Argentina's brand of star quality
People of Europe I send you the Rainbow of Argentina
Spain has fallen to the charms of Evita
She can do what she likes,it doesn't matter much
She's our lady of the new world with the golden touch
She filled a bullring forty-five thousand seater
But if you're prettier then General Franco,that's not hard
Franco's reign in Spain should see out the forties
So you just acquired an ally who looks as secure in his job as you
But more important,current political thought is...
your wife's a phenomenal asset. Your trump card
Let's hear it for the Rainbow Tour
It's been an incredible success
We weren't quite sure we had a few doubts
Will Evita win through?
But the answer is,yes
There you are I told you so
Makes no difference where she goes
The whole world over just the same. Just listen to them call her name
And who would underestimate the actress now?
Now I don't like to spoil a wonderful story
The news from Rome isn't quite as good
She hasn't gone down like they thought she would
Italy's unconvinced by Argentine glory
They equate Peron with Mussolini. Can't think why
Did you hear that? They called me a whore!
They actually called me a whore!
But Signora Peron,it's an easy mistake
I'm still called an admiral
Yet I gave up the sea long ago
More bad news from Rome...
she met with the Pope
She only got a rosary,a kindly word
I wouldn't say the Holy Father gave her the bird
But papal decorations? Never a hope
She still looked the part in St. Peter's. Caught in the eye
Let's hear it for the Rainbow Tour
It's been an incredible success
We weren't quite sure. We had a few doubts
Will Evita win through?
But the answer is...
A qualified...
Yes!
Eva started well,no question in France
Shining like a sun through the post-war haze
Beautiful reminder of the carefree days
She nearly captured the French,she sure had the chance
But she suddenly seemed to lose interest. She looked tired
Face the facts,the Rainbow's started to fade
I don't think she'll make it to England now
It wasn't on the schedule anyhow
You'd better get out the flags and fix a parade
Some kind of coming home in triumph is required
Let's hear it for the Rainbow Tour
It's been an incredible success
We weren't quite sure. We had a few doubts
Would Evita win through?
And the answer is...
yes
and no
and yes
and no
and yes
No
Let's hear it for the Rainbow Tour
It's been an incredible success
We weren't quite sure. We had a few doubts
Would Evita win through?
But the answer is...
yes
Thus all fairy stories end
Only an actress would pretend
Affairs of state are her latest play
Eight shows a week,two matinees
My how the worm begins to turn
When will the chorus girl ever learn?
My how the worm begins to turn
When will the chorus girl ever learn?
The chorus girl hasn't learned the lines you'd like to hear
She won't go scrambling over the backs of the poor to be accepted...
by making donations just large enough to the correct charity
She won't be president of your wonderful societies of philanthropy
Even if you asked her to be as you should have asked her to be
The actress hasn't learned the lines you'd like to hear
She won't join your clubs
She won't dance in your halls
She won't help the hungry...
once a month at your tombolas
She'll simply take control as you disappear
Forgive my intrusion...
but fine as those sentiments sound
Little has changed for us peasants down here on the ground
I hate to sound childish,ungrateful I don't like to moan
But do you now represent anyone's cause but your own?
Everything done will be justified by my foundation
And the money kept rolling in from every side
GIVE IN THIS WORLD LIVE IN THE NEXT
Eva's pretty hands reached out and they reached wide
Now you may feel it should have been a voluntary cause
But that's not the point,my friends
When the money keeps rolling in you don't ask how
Think of all the people guaranteed a good time now
Eva has called the hungry to her. Open out the door!
Never been a fund like the Foundation Eva Peron!
Would you like to try a college education?
Own your landlord's house,take the family on vacation?
Eva and her blessed fund can make your dreams come true
Here's all you have to do my friends
Write your name and your dream on a card or a pad or a ticket...
throw it high in the air and should our lady pick it
She will change your way of life for a week or even two
Name me anyone who cares as much as Eva Peron
And the money kept rolling out in all directions...
to the poor,to the weak,to the destitute of all complexions
Now cynics claim a little of the cash has gone astray...
but that's not the point my friends...
And the money keeps rolling out you don't keep books
You can tell you've done well by the happy,grateful looks
Accountants only slow things down figures get in the way
Never been a lady loved as much as Eva Peron!
Eva!
When the money keeps rollin' out you don't keep books
You can tell you've done well by the happy,grateful looks
Accountants only slow things down figures get in the way
Never been a lady loved as much as Eva Peron!
VIVA EVITA
Peron is everything!
He is the soul! The nerve!
The hope and the reality of the Argentine people!
We all know that there is only one man in our movement!
With his own source of light! We all feed from his light!
And that is Peron!
Evita Peron,Partido Femenista. Evita Peron,la Vice Presidentia
And now she wants to be Vice President
That was the over the top unacceptable suggestion
We didn't approve...
but we couldn't prevent the games of the wife of the President
But to give her pretensions,encouragement She's out of her depth and out of the question
But on the other hand she's all they have
She's a diamond in their dull gray lives
And that's the hardest kind of stone. It usually survives
And when you think about it can you recall the last time they loved anyone at all?
She's not a bauble you can brush aside
She's been out doing what we just talked about
Example...
Gave us back our businesses
Got the English out
And when you think about it well,why not do 1 or 2 of the things we promised to?
But on the other hand she's slowing down
She's lost a little of that magic drive
But I would not advise those critics present...
to derive any satisfaction from her fading star
She's the one who's kept us where we are
She's the one who's kept you where you are
Santa,Santa Evita
RAILWAY WORKERS STRIKE
UNEMPLO YMENT SOARS Ministers meet with unions
GOLD RESERVES ALL TIME LOW
Turn a blind eye Evita. Turn a blind eye
EVITA
Please,gentle Eva...
will you bless a little child?
For I love you...
tell Heaven I'm doing my best
I'm praying for you even though you're already blessed
Please mother Eva...
will you look upon me as you own? Make me special
Be my angel be my everything wonderful perfect and true...
and I'll try to be exactly like you
Please,mother Eva...
will you look upon me as your own? Make me special
Be my angel be my everything wonderful,perfect and true
And I'll try to be exactly like you
Please holy Eva...
will you feed a hungry child...
for I love you
Tell heaven I'm doing my best
I'm praying for you even though you're already blessed
Amen
Why try to govern a country when you can become a saint?
Tell me before I waltz out of you life. Before turning my back on the past
Forgive my impertinent behavior...
but how long do you think this pantomime can last?
Tell me before I ride off in the sunset
There's one thing I never got clear
How can you claim you're our savior?
When those who oppose you are stepped on or cut up...
or simply disappear?
Tell me before you get onto your bus. Before joining the forgotten brigade
How can one person like me,say alter the time-honored way the game is played?
Tell me before you get on to your high horse
Just what you expect me to do
I don't care what the bourgeoisie say
I'm not in business for them...
but to give all my descamisados a magical moment or two
There is evil ever around,fundamental system of government quite incidental
So what are my chances of honest advances I'd say low
Better to win by admitting my sin...
than to lose with a halo
Tell me before I seek worthier pastures...
and thereby restore self esteem
How can you be so short sighted...
to look never further than this week or next week...
to have no impossible dream?
Allow me to help you slink off to the sidelines...
and mark your adieu with three cheers
But first tell me who'd be delighted...
if I said I'd take on the world's greatest problems...
from war to pollution,no hope of solution even if I live for 100 years?
There is evil ever around,fundamental system of government quite incidental
So go if you're able to somewhere unstable and stay there
Whip up your hate in some tottering state...
but not here dear. Is that clear,dear?
what I'd give for a hundred years but the physical interferes every day more
Oh,my creator...
what is the good of the strongest heart in a body that's falling apart?
A serious flaw
I hope you know that
Your little body is slowly breaking down
You're losing speed
Your losing strength not style that goes on flourishing forever
But your eyes,your smile do not have the sparkle of your fantastic past
If you climb one more mountain if could be your last
I'm not that ill
Bad moments come,but they go
Some days are fine,some a little bit harder
But that doesn't mean we should give up our dream
Have you ever seen me defeated?
Don't you forget what I've been through and yet I'm still standing
Eva,you're dying
So what happens now?
Where am I going to?
Don't ask anymore
Where do we go from here?
This isn't where we intended to be
We had it all...
you believed in me
I believed in you
Certainties disappear
What do we do for our dream to survive?
How do we keep all our passions alive as we used to do?
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say
Scared to confess what I'm feeling...
frightened you'll slip away
You must love me
Why are you at my side?
How can I be any use to you now?
Give me a chance and I'll let you see how nothing has changed
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say
Scared to confess what I'm feeling...
frightened you'll slip away
You must love me. You must love me
You must love me
The actress hasn't learned the lines you'd like to hear
She's sad for her country
Sad to be defeated by her own weak body
Evita!
I want to tell the people of Argentina...
I've decided I should decline all the honors & titles you've pressed me to take
For I'm contented
Let me simply go on as the woman
who brings her people...
to the heart of Peron
Don't cry for me Argentina
The truth is I shall not leave you
Though it may get harder for you to see me
I'm Argentina...
and always will be
Have I said too much?
There's nothing more I can think of to say to you
But all you have to do is look at me
to know that every word is true
She had her moment,she had some style
The best show in town was the crowd...
outside the Casa Rosadda crying Eva Peron
But that's all gone now
The choice was mine and mine completely
I could have any prize that I desired
I could burn with the splendor of the brightest fire
Or else... or else I could choose time
Remember
I was very young then...
and a year was forever and a day
So what use could fifty,sixty,seventy be?
I saw the lights...
and I was on my way
And how I lived
How they shone but how soon the lights were gone
The choice was yours and no one else's
You can cry for a body in despair
Hang your head...
because she's no longer there...
to shine... to dazzle... or detray
How she lived
How she shone
But how soon the lights were gone
Eyes,hair,face,image...
all must be preserved
Still life displayed forever
No less than she deserved