unknown

(crowd:)
Requiem aeternum dona evita
Requiem aeternum dona evita
Requiem evita, requiem evita
Evita, evita, evita, evita
Grant eternal rest to evita
Grant eternal rest to evita
Rest to evita, rest to evita
Evita, evita, evita, evita


Requiem aeternum dona evita
Requiem aeternum dona evita
Requiem evita, requiem evita
Evita, evita, evita, evita

(eva:)
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?

Chorus:

(eva:) so what happens now?
(che:) another suitcase in another hall
(eva:) so what happens now?
(che:) take your picture off another wall
(eva:) where am i going to?
(che:) you'll get by, you always have before
(eva:) where am i going to?

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

(chorus)

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.

(chorus, with che's lines being sung by the starlets)

(huevo:)
Don't ask anymore.

(aristocrats:)
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?

(eva:)
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

(che:)
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?

(eva:)
Everything done will be justified by my foundation

[evita, evita, evita, evita]
[evita, evita, evita]

It won't be easy, you'll think it strange
When i try to explain how i feel
That i still 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
Looking out of the window, staying out of the sun

So i chose freedom
Running around, trying everything new
But nothing impressed me at all
I never expected it to

Chorus:

No llores por mi argentina
Mi alma esta contigo
Mi vida entera, te la dedico
Mas no te alejes

Te necesito
Don't cry for me argentina
My soul is with you
My whole life, i dedicate to you
Don't keep your distance

I need you


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

(chorus)

Chorus2:

No llores por mi argentina
Jamas yo te he abandonado
Aunque en silencio, mi alma te grita
Hoy y por siempre
[soy argentina]
Soy argentina
(translation:
Don't cry for me argentina
I have never left you
Although in silence, my soul cries to you
Now and forever
[i am argentina]
I am argentina )


[ahh, so i chose freedom for argentina, ahh]
[no llores por mi]

[evita, evita, evita, evita]
[evita, evita, evita]

So i chose freedom
Running around, trying everything new
But nothing impressed me at all
I never expected it to

(chorus)
(chorus2)

No llores por mi

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

(eva:)
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
Looking out of the window, staying out of the sun

So i chose freedom
Running around, trying everything new
But nothing impressed me at all
I never expected it to

Chorus:

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

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 are not the solutions they promised to be
The answer was here all the time
I love you and hope you love me

Don't cry for me argentina

(chorus)

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

Watch where you walk 'cause the sidewalks talk
And you can't keep a secret from the ground beneath you
Step very lightly on the earth below
Or before you know it everyone will know

Streets were paved with a thousand eyes
And try as you may you can't disguise
There's only two things that you can't hide from
That's you and the ground you're walking on

Chorus:

Watch where you walk, 'cause the sidewalks talk
You better watch what you do, what you do
'cause the sidewalk talk can get carried away
You better watch what you say, what you say

Think when you speak 'cause you gotta 'long the street
They can read what you say so you gotta stay away
From words that sting, words are not true
And the things you say make a fool of you

Little white lies make the sidewalk cry
And you can betray with the things you say
Words won't last when you say 'em too fast
And you've been mislead by the things you've said

(chorus)

Intermediate:

When you're living on the street
Life can be full of misery
Find a place to call your own
Make your heart into a home

You can do it, uh huh
(repeat 3 times)

You can do it

After every word there's a place that heard
Every time your shoe hits the avenue
And when you've gone they'll sing a song
Of the stories you told when you felt so bold

You better think twice when you cross the ice
Everything you do comes back to you
When you're shedding a tear sidewalks will hear
When your laughter's true they'll run with you

(chorus)
(intermediate)

You can do it, uh huh
(repeat 3 times)

You can do it
(repeat 3 times)

(chorus)

Sidewalk talk
(repeat 3 times)

Let me tell ya 'bout sidewalk talk
Sidewalk talk
Sidewalk talk
Sidewalk talk
(repeat)

Watch out for sidewalk talk
Sidewalk talk
Sidewalk talk
Sidewalk talk

Let me tell ya 'bout
Let me tell ya 'bout
Let me tell ya 'bout
Let me tell ya 'bout sidewalk talk

(peron:)
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
One or two 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

(officers:)
She's the one who's kept you where you are

(choir:)
Respice, quaesumus, domine
Famulam tuam evita
In infirmitate
Et animam refove, quam creasti
Ut castigationibus emendata
Se tua sentiat medicina salvatam
Per christum, dominuum
Qui vivit et regnat
Per omnia saecula saeculorum
Amen
(translation:
Look with favor, we beseech thee, oh lord
Upon thy handmaid evita
In her weakness
And refresh the soul which thou hast created
That being corrected by thy chastisement
She may find herself cured by thy healing
Through christ, our lord
Who lives and reigns
Forever and ever
Amen )


(che:)
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

Chorus:

Was it just a dream?
Did i feel your devotion?
Dreams are never what they seem
Did we just go through the motions?

I keep your photograph by my bed to remind me
That i was part of your life
I say my prayers to the sandman
That he'll find me fast asleep

Sleep has always been kind
And in my dreams you'll always be mine
But in the morning when i wake
I remember that my heart does ache

(chorus, repeat)

I admit that i did my bit to deceive you
But sometimes i was afraid
That this day would come
How could you just leave me all alone now

I have always been strong
So i know that i can go on
But right now i feel so dead inside
Oh sleep come to me, cause that's where i hide

(chorus, repeat)

All that i have, all i ask
All my dreams, they fade so fast
Don't wake me up, not today
All my dreams will fade away

And i want him, and i need him
I can't live and i'd die just to see him
Just to feel his hands on my face
Smell his skin, and his warm embrace
Cause it's all that i have
And it's fading so fast

Mmmm, mmmm
Uh, uh huh

Now i have always been strong
So i know that i can go on
But right now i feel so dead inside
Oh sleep come to me, cause that's where i hide

(chorus, repeat)

All that i have, all that i ask
All my dreams, they fade so fast
Don't wake me up, not today
All my dreams will fade away

[was it just a dream?]
And i want him, and i need him
I can't live and i'd die just to see him
Don't wake me up, not today
All my dreams will fade away

[was it just a dream?]
All that i have, all that i ask
All my dreams, they fade so fast
Don't wake me up, not today
All my dreams will fade away
(repeat and fade)

Breathe in, breathe out
I say a little prayer
How the gods above
Could be so unfair

Chorus:

I know there's someone out there
Waiting for me
There must be someone out there
There just has to be

Go on, go on
Don't sit there like a fool
You've graduated from
A different kind of school

(chorus, repeat)

I should be glad that i'm alive
It could have been much worse
I might have never loved at all
And never known what i am worth

How the gods above
Could be so unfair

(chorus, repeat)

(eva:)
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 oughta know whatcha 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 in 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 oughta know whatcha 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, i love you
And if i need a moment's rest
Give your lover the very best
Real eiderdown and silence.

(musical interlude)

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, corrientes, nueve de julio
All i want to know

Stand back, buenos aires
Because you oughta know whatcha gonna get in me
Just a little touch of
Just a little touch of
Just a little touch of star quality

(peron:)
People of europe, i send you the rainbow of argentina

(che:)
Spain has fallen to the charms of evita
She can do what she likes, it doesn't matter much
(aide #1:)
She's our lady of the new world with a golden touch
(aide #2:)
She filled a bull-ring, forty-five thousand seater
(che:)
But if you're prettier than general franco, that's not hard

(aide #1:)
Franco's reign in spain should see out the forties
So you've just acquired an ally who
Looks as secure in his job as you
(aide #2:)
But more important current political thought is
Your wife's a phenomenal asset, your trump card

Chorus:

(peron and aides:)
Let's hear it for the rainbow tour
It's been an incredible success
We weren't quite sure, we had a few doubts

(peron:) will evita win through?
(aides:) but the answer is yes

(peron:)
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?

(che:)
Now i don't like to spoil a wonderful story
But 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

(eva:)
Did you hear that? they called me a whore!
They actually called me a whore!

(italian admiral:)
But signora peron it's an easy mistake
I'm still called an admiral
Yet i gave up the sea long ago

(aide #2:)
More bad news from rome; she met with the pope
She only got a rosary, a kindly word
(che:)
I wouldn't say the holy father gave her the bird
But papal decorations, never a hope
(aide #1:)
She still looked the part at st. peter's, caught the eye

(chorus)

(peron:) will evita win through?
(aides:) but the answer is ...
(che:) a qualified
(aides:) yes

(che:)
Eva started well, no question, in france
Shining like a sun through the post-war haze
A beautiful reminder of the care-free days
She nearly captured the french, she sure had the chance
But she suddenly seemed to lose interest
She looked tired

(che:)
Face the facts, the rainbow's starting to fade
I don't think she'll make it to england now

(aide #1:)
It wasn't on the schedule anyhow

(che:)
You'd better get out the flags and fix a parade
Some kind of coming home in triumph is required

(chorus)

(aide #2:) would evita win through?
(aide #1:) and the answer is
(aide #2:) yes
(che:) and no
(aides:) and yes
(che:) and no
(aides:) and yes
(che:) no

(chorus)

(aides:) would evita win through? but the answer is
(aide #2:) yes
(aide #1:) yes
(aide #2:) yes

I want you to know one thing
You know how this is

If i look at the crystal moon
At the red branch of the slow autumn at my window
If i touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log
Everything carries me to you
As if everything that exists - aromas, light, metals
Were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me

Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by little
If suddenly you forget me
Do not look for me
For i shall already have forgotten you

If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where i have roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour, i shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land

But, if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me
With implacable sweetness
If each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me
Ahh my love, ahh my own, in me all that fire is repeated
In me nothing is extinguished or forgotten
My love feeds on your love, beloved
And as long as you live, it will be in your arms without leaving mine

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?

Bridge:

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

Chorus:

You must love me
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

(bridge)
(chorus)

You must love me

Santa baby, slip a sable under the tree, for me
I've been an awful good girl
Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight

Santa baby, a 54 convertible too, light blue
>I'll wait up for you dear
>Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight

>Think of all the fun i've missed
>Think of all the fellas that i haven't kissed
Next year i could be just as good
>If you'd check off my christmas list
>Boo doo bee doo

Santa honey, i wanna yacht and really that's
Not a lot
I've been an angel all year
Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight

Santa cutie, there's one thing i really do need, the deed
To a platinum mine
Santa cutie, and hurry down the chimney tonight

Santa baby, i'm filling my stocking with a duplex, and checks
Sign your 'x' on the line
Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight

Come and trim my christmas tree
With some decorations bought at tiffany's
I really do believe in you
Let's see if you believe in me
Boo doo bee doo

Santa baby, forgot to mention one little thing, a ring
I don't mean a phone
Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight

Hurry down the chimney tonight
Hurry down the chimney tonight

(che:)
And the money kept rolling in from every side
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's called the hungry to her, open up the doors
Never been a fund like the foundation eva peron

Chorus:

(workers:)
Rollin' rollin' rollin', rollin' rollin' rollin'
Rollin' rollin' rollin', rollin' rollin' rollin'
Rollin' rollin' rollin', rollin' rollin' rollin'
Rollin' rollin' rollin', rollin' rollin' rollin'

Rollin' on in, rollin' on in
Rollin' on in, rollin' on in
On in

(che:)
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

(chorus)

Rollin' on out, rollin' on out
Rollin' on out, rollin' on out
On out

(che:)
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
When 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

(chorus)

Rollin' on out, rollin' on out
Rollin' on out, rollin' on out
On out

(che:)
Eva!!!
When 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

(chorus)

Rollin' on out, rollin' on out
Rollin' on out, rollin' on out
Rollin' on out, rollin' on out
On out

(che:)
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 roundabout 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

(crowd:)
Salve regina mater misericordiae
Vita dulcedo et spes nostra
Salve salve regina
Ad te clamamus exules filii eva
Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes
O clemens o pia
Hail, oh queen, mother of mercy
Our life, sweetness, and hope
Hail, hail, oh queen
To you we cry, exiled sons of eve
To you we sigh, mourning and weeping
Oh clement, oh loving one


(che:)
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
And 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

(crowd:)
Salve regina mater misericordiae
Vita dulcedo et spes nostra
Salve salve regina peron
Ad te clamamus exules filii eva
Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes
O clemens o pia

(eva:)
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
So share my glory, so share my coffin

(che:)
It's our funeral too

(children:)
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 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

Please, mother eva, will you feed a hungry child?
For i love you [(che:) turn a blind eye, evita] tell heaven i'm doing my best [(che:) turn a blind eye]
I'm praying for you, even though you're already blessed

(workers:)
Santa santa evita
Madre de todos los ninos
De los tiranizados, de los descamisados
De los trabajadores, de la argentina
(repeat and fade)

Who's that girl, who's that girl

When you see her, say a prayer and kiss your heart goodbye
She's trouble, in a word get closer to the fire
Run faster, her laughter burns you up inside
You're spinning round and round
You can't get up, you try but you can't

Chorus:

Quien es esa nina, who's that girl
Senorita, mas fina, who's that girl
Quien es esa nina, who's that girl
Senorita, mas fina, who's that girl

You try to avoid her, fate is in your hands
She's smiling, an invitation to the dance
Her heart is on the street, tu corazon es suyo
Now you're falling at her feet
You try to get away but you can't

(chorus)

Intermediate:

Light up my life, so blind i can't see
Light up my life, no one can help me now

Run faster, her laughter burns you up inside
He's spinning round and round
You can't get up, you try but you can't

(chorus)
(intermediate)

Who's that girl
Now, who's that girl
Now, who's that girl
Now, who's that girl

(chorus)

(che:)
Goodnight and thank you huevo
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

(eva:)
Oh but it's sad when a love affair dies
But we have pretended enough
It's best that we both stop fooling ourselves

(che:)
Which means ...

Chorus:

(che and eva:)
There is noone, noone 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

(che:)
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

(eva:)
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've shared
Which means ...

(chorus, substituting "blame her" for "blame them", sung only by che)

(eva:)
There is no soap, no soap like zaz
No detergent, lotion, or oil with such power in the shower
It's the mother and 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

(che:)
Goodnight 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

(eva:)
Oh but it's sad when a love affair dies
The decline into silence and doubt
Our passion was just too intense to survive

(che:)
Which means ...

(lovers:)
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

(eva:)
Fame on the wireless as far as it goes
Is all very well but every girl knows

(che:)
She needs a man she can monopolize
With fingers in dozens of different pies

(lovers:)
Oh but it's sad when a love affair dies

(eva:)
Just listen to that, the voice of argentina
We are adored, we are loved

(officer:)
Statesmanship is more than entertaining peasants

(eva's sister:)
We shall see little man

(crowd:)
[evita peron, la santa peronista ... ]

(eva:)
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 the obligarchs
Only for you, for all of you
And one day, you too will inherit these treasures
Descamisados, mis companeros
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

(aristocrats:)
Things have reached a pretty pass
When someone pretty lower-class
Can be respected and admired

(aristocrat:)
But our privileged class is dead
Look who they are calling for now

(che:) at the watering holes of the well-to-do
I detect a resistance to
(aristocrats:) precisely
(che:) our heroine's style
(aristocrats:) we're glad you noticed

(che:) the shooting sticks of the upper-class
(aristocrats:) give her an inch
(che:) aren't supporting a single ass
That would rise for the girl
(aristocrats:) she'll take a mile

(aristocrats:)
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

(che:) could there be in our fighting corps
A lack of enthusiasm for
(army:) exactly
(che:) peron's latest flame
(army:) you said it brother

(che:)
Should you wish to cause great distress
In the tidiest officer's mess
Just mention her name

(army:)
That isn't funny

Peron is a fool, breaking every taboo
Installing a 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

(aristocrats:)
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

(eva:)
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

(army:)
It's no crime for officers to do as they please
As long as they're discreet and keep clear of disease
We ignore, we disregard
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 that she's not paid
To be loud but to be laid
Slut! dangerous jade

(che:)
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?

(eva:)
Acting is limiting, the line's not mine
That's no help to the argentine

(che:)
Can we assume then that you'll quit?
Is this because of your involvement with colonel peron?

(heavies:)
Goodnight and thank you

(army:)
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

(aristocrats:)
Things have reached a pretty pass
When someone pretty lower-class
Graceless and vulgar, uninspired
Can be accepted and admired

Haven't we met
You're some kind of beautiful stranger
You could be good for me
I've had the taste for danger

If i'm smart then i'll run away
But i'm not so i guess i'll stay
Heaven forbid
I'll take my chance on a beautiful stranger

I looked into your eyes
And my world came tumbling down
You're the devil in disguise
That's why i'm singing this song

Bridge:

To know you is to love you
You're everywhere i go
And everybody knows

To love you is to be part of you
I've paid for you with tears
And swallowed all my pride

Chorus:

Da-da-da-dum da-dum da-dum da da da-da dum
Beautiful stranger
Da-da-da-dum da-dum da-dum da da da-da dum
Beautiful stranger

If i'm smart then i'll run away
But i'm not so i guess i'll stay
Haven't you heard
I fell in love with a beautiful stranger

I looked into your face
My heart was dancing all over the place
I'd like to change my point of view
If i could just forget about you

(bridge)

I looked into your eyes
And my world came tumbling down
You're the devil in disguise
That's why i'm singing this song to you

(bridge)

I've paid for you with tears
And swallowed all my pride

(chorus)

(eva:) colonel peron
(peron:) eva duarte

(eva and peron:)
I've heard so much about you

(eva and peron:)
I'm amazed, for i'm only an actress [a soldier]
Nothing to shout about [one of the thousands]
Only a girl on the air [defending the country he loves]

(eva:)
But when you act, the things you do affect us all

(peron:)
But when you act, you take us away from the squalor of the real world
Are you here on your own?

(eva:)
Yes, oh yes

(peron:)
So am i, what a fortunate coincidence
Maybe you're my reward for my efforts here tonight

(eva:)
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'll 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 goodbye
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

(peron:)
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

(eva:)
I'm not talking of a hurried night
A frantic tumble then a shy goodbye
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

Lo que siente la mujer


Deliciosa
Labio suave y rosa... baby
Piel de miel, dulce y silenciosa

Te parece confundida
Su pasion esta escondida
Nunca sabes lo que va decir
Cuando empieza a sonreir

Quieres ver lo que siente la mujer
Quieres ver y tratar de comprender...la mujer

Seductora, pero nunca facil...baby
Misteriosamente dura y fragil
Lagrimas que no te enseña
Su dolor no deja huella
No la trates ya de impresionar
Solo dejate llevar

Quieres ver lo que siente la mujer
Quieres ver y tratar de comprender...la mujer
Quieres ver lo que siente la mujer
Quieres ver y tratar de comprender
Lo que siente la mujer

Te parece confundida
Su pasion esta escondida
Nunca sabes lo que va decir
Cuando empieza a sonreir

Quieres ver lo que siente la mujer
Quieres ver y tratar de comprender...la mujer
Quieres ver lo que siente la mujer
Quieres ver y tratar de comprender
La mujer...comprender...
Quieres ver
Quieres ver

Quieres ver lo que siente la mujer
Y tratar de comprender

What the woman feels

Delicious, pink and soft lip, baby
Syrup skin, sweet and silence,
She seems to you as confused
Her passion is hidden.
You never know what she's going to say
When she starts to smile.

(chorus:)
Do you want to see what the woman feels?
Do you want to? and try to comprehend the woman.

Seducer, but she is never easy, baby.
Mysteriously hard and soft,
Tear that she never shows you
Her pain doesn't ever let a clue
Don't try to impress her
Just let yourself go with the flow.

(chorus:) 2 times.

She seems to you as confused
Her passion is hidden.
You never know what she's going to say
When she starts to smile.

(chorus:)

Do you want to see what the woman feels?
Do you want to? and try to comprehend...
...the womaaaan....compreheeeend.....

(chorus:)

Do you want to see?
Do you want to see?
Do you want to see? and try to comprehend...

(che:)
Tell me before i waltz out of your 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?

(eva:)
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 onto 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

(che and eva:)
There is evil, ever around
Fundamental system of government
Quite incidental

(eva:)
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

(che:)
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?

(eva:)
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 lived for one hundred years

(che and eva:)
There is evil, ever around
Fundamental system of government
Quite incidental

(eva:)
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?

Oh what i'd give for a hundred years
But the physical interferes
Every day more, o 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

(an audience is watching a less than distinguished movie.
[in both the original london and new york productions of
Evita, a clip from one of eva peron's own movies was used].
The soundtrack dialogue is in spanish, the music melodramatic.)

(julieta:) carlos.

(carlos:) julieta, mi querida julieta.

(julieta:) carlos, no tendr