A Cinema In Buenos aires, 26 July 1952 [Julieta:] Carlos. [Carlos:] Julieta, mi querida Julieta. [Julieta:] Carlos, no tendrias que haber venido. [Carlos:] Julieta, ni un millar de soldados me puede detener. [Julieta:] Pero es peligroso, mi padre te arrestara. [Carlos:] Tenia que venir. [Julieta:] ?Carlos! [Carlos:] Hasta este momento, mis labios no han osado murmurar la palabra amor. [Julieta:] Carlos. [Carlos:] Y mucho mas que eso, mi ser todo vibra de deseo. ?Que fue eso? Algo se movio en el balcon de tu padre. Si fuera ese truhan de Rodolfo, juro que mi espada no permanecera en su vaina. [Julieta:] ?Carlos, ten cuidado! Te quiero, Carlos, te quiero. [Suddenly the film grinds to a halt.] [The people in the cinema begin to protest but are silenced by an announcement.] [The Voice of the Secretary of the Press:] It is my sad duty to inform you that Eva Peron, spiritual leader of the nation, entered immortality at 8:25 this evening.

Requiem For evita 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

Oh what A Circus 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 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 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 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 It's our funeral too

Buenos Aires 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. 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

Another Suitcase In another Hall 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? Another suitcase in another hall So what happens now? Take your picture off another wall Where am I going to? You'll get by You always have before 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 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

Good Night And Thank You 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 Oh but it's sad when a love affair dies But we have pretended enough It's best that we both stop fooling ourselves Which means ....... 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 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've shared Which means ...... 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 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 Oh but it's sad when a love affair dies The decline into silence and doubt Our passion was just too intense to 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 Is 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

I'd Be surprisingly Good For You Colonel Peron Eva Duarte I've heard so much about you 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 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'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 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 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

Hello and Goodbye Hello and goodbye I 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 happens now? Where am I going to? You'll get by You always have before Where am I going to? Don't ask anymore

Peron's Latest Flam At the watering holes Of the well to do I detect a resistance to Precisely Our heroine's style We're glad you noticed The shooting sticks of the upper class Give her an inch 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 Exactly 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 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   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 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 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 line's 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? 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

A New Argentina 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 six feet underground 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 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 workers' 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 workers' 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 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 lose 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 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 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

Don't Cry For Me Argentina 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 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 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

On The Balcony Of The Casa Rosada 2 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...... La Santa Peronista ... Evita Peron...... La Santa Peronista ... Evita Peron...... La Santa Peronista ... Evita Peron...... La Santa Peronista ... Evita Peron...... La Santa Peronista ... 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 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 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 backstreet 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 there 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 twentysix There are no mysteries now Nothing can thrill you Noone fulfill you High flying Adored I hope you come to terms with boredom So famous so easily So soon It's 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 drained 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 stuck in the right place at The perfect time Filled a gap I was lucky But one thing I'll say for me Noone else can fill it like I can

Rainbow High 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 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 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 oughta know Whatcha gonna get in me Just a little touch of Just a little touch of Argentina's brand of star quality

The Actress Hasn't Learned The Lines 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

Partido Feminista Evita Peron.....Partido Feminista Evita Peron.....Partido Feminista Evita Peron...Partido Feminista 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 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

Waltz For Eva And 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 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 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 lived for one hundred years 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

Your Little Body's Slowly Breaking Down Your little body's Slowly breaking down You're losing speed You're 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 it 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 are dying So what happens now Where am I going to Don't ask anymore

You Must Love Me 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 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 You must love me You must love me You must love me

Eva's Final Braodcast 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!! EVITA!! EVITA!!! EVITA!! EVITA!! EVITA!! EVITA!!! EVITA!!! EVITA!!! EVITA!! I want to tell The people of Argentina I've decided I should decline All the honors and 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 make it 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

Lament 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 noone else's You can cry for a Body in despair Hang your head because She is no longer there To shine to dazzle Or betray 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