"It is my sad duty to inform you that Eva Perón, spiritual leader of the nation, entered immortality at 8:25 this evening." " 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 are not his wife." "Your children are bastards." "No, no!" "He's my papa!" "Oh what a circus" "Oh what a show" "Argentina has gone to town" "Over the death of an actress" "Called Eva Perón" "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 Perón" "It's quite a sunset" "And good for the country ln 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 Perón"" "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 1 7 October 1 945" "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" "It's our funeral too" "Senor Magaldi?" "It's seven o' clock." "You'll be late." "Now, Eva Perón" "Had every disadvantage" "You need if you're going to succeed" "No money, no cash" "No father, no bright lights" "There was nowhere she'd been" "At the age of 1 5" "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 1 000 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" "Now I know that it can" "I used 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, miamor" "To think that a man as famous as you are" "Could love a poor little nothing like me" "I want to be a part of B.A. Buenos Aires, Big Apple" "Just listen to that" "They're onto 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 passed, 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 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 want to 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 and 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 classes" "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, oh why, oh why the hell can't I?" "I only want variety of society" "I want 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 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?" "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 whatever you say I'll not steal you away" "What's new, Buenos Aires?" "I'm new I want to 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 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" "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 What you're gonna get in me" "Just a little touch of star quality" "And" "If ever I go to 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" "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" "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" "Take your picture off another wall" "You'll get by you always have before" "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" "Where am I going to?" "Don't ask any more" "Good night and thank you, whoever" "She's 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 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" "Good night 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 lf 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 ln 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 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" "Good night and thank you, Senor Jabón" "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 monopolise" "With fingers in dozens of different pies" "In June of '43" "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 Attila the Hun" "A bomb or two And very few objected" "Just one shell" "And governments fall like flies" "Ka-pow, die They stumble and fall" "Bye-bye Backs to the wall" "Aim high We're having a ball" "The tank and bullet ruled As democracy died" "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" "OK, 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" "Just one shell And governments lose their nerve" "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 Perón" "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" "Just one blast And the tear gas falls like rain" "They haven't a chance" "The terrorists advance" "But one guy doesn't dirty his hands" "Perón was biding time out" "In the slow lane" "Suddenly an earthquake hit" "The town of San Juan" "They stumble and fall" "Keep away from the wall" "But one guy" "Was having a ball" "The tragedy a golden chance for Perón" "He organised a concert With incredible flair" "In aid of all the victims Such a grand affair" "Politicians, actors Stars of every flavour" "It was January 22, 1 944" "A night to remember, that's for sure" "For that's the night That Perón first met Eva" "On this night" "On this night" "On this night of 1 000 stars" "Let me take you to heaven's door" "Where the music of love's guitars" "Plays for evermore" "Your act hasn't changed much" "Neither has yours" "I stand here as a servant of the people" "As we come together for a marvellous 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" "One always picks" "The easy fight" "One praises fools" "One smothers light" "One shifts" "From left to right" "Politics" "The art of the possible" "I've heard so much about you" "I'm amazed" " For I'm only an actress" " For I'm only 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 20 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" "Please go on." "You enthral 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" "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 ln 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 goodbye" "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, civilised" "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?" "Where am I going to?" "You'll get by, you always have before" "Don't ask any more" "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 Harrods" "But behind the jewellery counter" "Not in front" "Could there be" "In our fighting corps" "A lack of enthusiasm for" "Perón'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" "Perón 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 that's using him" "He's exceptionally dim" "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'm 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 centre 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 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 Perón?" "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 onto 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 that'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" "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 20 of them anyway" "What is 20 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" "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" "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 Perón" "May the nation let him save them" "As he saved me" "A new age about to begin" "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?" "Perón 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?" "Release him." "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" "Your newly elected president Juan Perón" "We are all workers now" "Fighting against our common enemies" "Poverty, social injustice..." "Foreign domination of our industries" "Reaching for our common goals" "Our independence, our dignity" "Our pride" "Let the world know" "That our great nation is awakening" "And that its heart beats in the humble bodies" "Of Juan Perón" "And his wife" "The first lady of Argentina" "Eva" "Duarte" "De Perón" "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're 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" "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" "I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Perón 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 oligarchs." "Only for you, for all of you." "And one day you too will inherit these treasures!" "When they fire those cannons, when crowds sing of glory, it is not just for Perón 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 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" "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 26" "There are no mysteries now" "Nothing can thrill you No one fulfil 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 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 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" "Perón 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" "I'm their product, it's vital to 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 saviour" "That's what they call me" "So Lauren Bacall me Anything goes" "To make me fantastic" "I have to be rainbow high" "In magical colours" "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" "Look out, mighty Europe" "Because you ought to know What you're gonna get in me" "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 a golden touch" "She filled a bull ring 45,000 seater" "But if you're prettier than General Franco" "That's not hard" "Franco's reign in Spain" "Should see out the '40s" "So you've 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" "But the news from Rome lsn't quite as good" "She hasn't gone down Like they thought she would" "Italy's unconvinced" "By Argentine glory" "They equate Perón with Mussolini" "Can't think why" "Did you hear that?" "They called me a whore" "They actually called me a whore" "But Senora Perón" "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 at St. Peter's Caught the eye" "Eva started well, no question, in France" "Shining like a sun Through the post-war haze" "A 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 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" "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 world 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" "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" "Opened up the doors" "Never been a fund Like the Foundation Eva Perón" "Rolling, rolling, rolling" "Rolling on in" "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 Perón" "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 Perón" "Perón is everything." "He's 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 Perón." "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 intentions" "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, grey 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" "She's the one who's kept you" "Where you are" "Turn a blind eye, Evita Turn a blind eye" "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" "Turn a blind eye, Evita" "Why try to govern a country" "When you can become a saint?" "Tell me before I waltz out of your life" "Before turning my back on the past" "Forgive my impertinent behaviour" "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 saviour" "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-honoured 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" "I'll 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 1 00 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 ln some tottering state" "But not here, dear ls that clear, dear?" "Oh what I'd give for 1 00 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'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're dying" "So what happens now?" "Where am I going to?" "Don't ask any more" "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" "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" "I want to tell the people" "Of Argentina" "I've decided" "I should decline" "All the honours 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 Perón" "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 moments" "She had some style" "The best show in town was the crowd" "Outside the Casa Rosada They're crying, "Eva Perón"" "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 splendour" "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" "70 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 is no longer there" "To shine, or 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"