"Evita" "BUENOS AIRES, 1952" "It is my sad duty to inform you that Eva Peron... spiritual leader of the nation... entered immortality... at eight twenty five this evening" "CHIVILCO Y, 1926" "You are not welcome here" "He was the father of my children too" "They have a right to see him, to pay their last respects" "You're not his wife your children are bastards!" "Eva!" "Eva." "Eva" "Eva!" "Eva!" "No." "No." "He's my Papa!" "He's my Papa!" "Papa!" "Papa!" "He's my Papa!" "Papa!" "He's my Papa!" "He's my Papa!" "Requiem aeternum..." "Oh what a circus!" "Oh what a show" "Argentina has gone to town... over the death of an actress called Eva Peron" "We've all gone crazy mourning all day and mourning all night... falling over ourselves to get all of the misery right" "Oh what an exit!" "That's how to go" "When they're ringing your curtain down... demand to be buried like Eva Peron" "It's quite a sunset... and good for the country in a round about way" "We've made the front page of all... the world's papers today" "But who is this Santa Evita?" "Why all this howling hysterical sorrow?" "What kind of goddess has lived among us?" "How will we ever get by without her?" "She had her moments, she had some style" "The best show in town was the crowd... outside the Casa Rosada crying Eva Peron" "But that's all gone now" "As soon as the smoke from the funeral clears... we're all gonna see and how she did nothing for years!" "You let down your people Evita" "You were supposed to have been immortal" "That's all they wanted, not much to ask for" "But in the end you could not deliver" "Sing you fools!" "But you got it wrong" "Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long" "Your queen is dead, your king is through" "She's not coming back to you" "Show business kept us all alive since seventeen October 1945" "But the star has gone..." "The glamour's worn thin..." "That's a pretty bad state for a state to be in" "Instead of government we had a stage" "Instead of ideas a prima donna's rage" "Instead of help we were given a crowd" "She didn't say much, but she said it loud" "Sing you fools!" "But you got it wrong" "Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long" "Your queen is dead, your king is through" "She's not coming back to you" "Don't cry for me Argentina... for I am ordinary, unimportant... and undeserving of such attention" "Unless we all are, I think we all are" "So share my glory." "So share my coffin" "It's our funeral too" "JUNIN, 1936" "Senor Magaldi?" "It's seven o'clock" "You'll be late" "Now Eva Peron had every disadvantage you need if you're gonna succeed" "No money, no cash" "No father, no bright light" "There was nowhere she'd been at the age of fifteen" "As this tango singer found out..." "Agustin Magaldi who has the distinction of being the first man... to be of use to Eva Duarte" "On this night of a thousand stars... let me take you to heaven's door" "Where the music of love's guitars plays forever more" "In the glow of those twinkling lights... we shall love through eternity" "On this night in a million nights... fly away with me" "I never dreamed that a kiss could be as sweet as this but now I know that it can" "I use to wander alone without a love of my own." "I was a desperate man" "But all my grief disappeared and all the sorrow I'd feared wasn't there any more" "On that magical day when you first came my way mi amor" "On this night." "On this night." "On this night of a thousand stars... let me take you to heaven's door" "Where the music of love's guitars plays forever more" "To think that a man as famous as you are... could love a poor little nothing like me" "Eva" "I wanna be a part of B.A. Buenos Aires, Big Apple" "She wants to be a part of B.A. Buenos Aires Big Apple..." "Big Apple" "Just listen to that... they're on to you, Magaldi" "I'd get out while you can" "It's happened at last." "I'm starting to get started" "I'm moving out with my man" "Now Eva don't get carried away" "Monotony past." "Suburbia departed" "Who could ever be fond of the back of beyond?" "Don't hear words that I didn't say" "What's that?" "You'd desert the girl you love?" ""The girl I love?"" "What are you talking about?" "She really brightened up your out of town engagement" "She gave you all she had." "She wasn't in your contract" "You must be quite relieved that no one's told the papers" "So far!" "I wanna be a part of B.A. Buenos Aires" " Big Apple" "Would I have done what I did... if I hadn't thought... if I hadn't known... we would stay together?" "Seems to me there's no point in resisting" "She's made up her mind, you've no choice" "Why don't you be the man who discovered her?" "You'll never be remembered for your voice" "The city can be paradise for those who have the cash the class  the connections what you need to make a splash!" "The likes of you get swept up in the morning with the trash" "If you were rich or middle class" "Screw the middle clases!" "I will never accept them" "My father's other family were middle class" "And we were kept out of sight hidden from view at his funeral" "Do all your one night stands give you this trouble?" "Eva, beware of the city" "It's hungry and cold can't be controlled" "It is mad" "Those who are fools are swallowed up whole... and those who are not become what they should not become changed" "In short they go bad" "Bad is good for me" "I'm bored so clean and so ignored" "I've only been predictable!" "Respectable!" "Birds fly out of here so why on why, oh why the hell can't I?" "I only want variety of society" "I wanna be a part of B.A. Buenos Aires, Big Apple!" "She wants to be a part of B.A. Buenos Aires." "Big Apple!" "Five years from now I shall come back... and finally say you have your way, come to town" "But you'll look at me with a foreigner's eyes" "The magical city." "A younger girl's city." "A fantasy long since put down" "All you've done to me was that a young girl's fantasy?" "I've played your city games all right, didn't I?" "I already know what cooks." "How the dirty city feels and looks!" "I tasted it last night, didn't I?" "I'm gonna be a part of B.A. Buenos Aires." "Big Apple" "She's gonna be a part of B.A. Buenos Aires, Big Apple" "Eva, beware your ambition... it's hungry and cold can't be controlled, will run wild" "This in a man is danger enough... but you are a woman, not even a woman... not very much more than a child" "And what ever you say" "I'll not steal you away" "What's new, Buenos Aires?" "I'm new." "I wanna say I'm just a little stuck on you." "You'll be on me too" "I get out here, Buenos Aires" "Stand back." "You ought to know what you're gonna get in me" "Just a little touch of star quality" "Fill me up with your heat, with your noise, with your dirt overdo me" "Let me dance to your beat, make it loud, let it hurt, run it through me" "Don't hold back, you are certain to impress..." "Tell the driver, this is where I'm staying" "Hello, Buenos Aires" "Get this, just look at me dressed up somewhere to go." "We'll put on a show" "Take me out at your flood, give me speed, give me lights" "Set me humming" "Shoot me up with your blood, wine me up with your nights watch me coming" "All I want is a whole lot of excess" "Tell the singer this is where I'm playing" "Stand back, Buenos Aires" "Because you ought know what you're... gonna get in me" "Just a little touch of star quality" "And if ever I go too far it's because of the things you are beautiful town" "And if I need a moment's rest" "Give your lover the very best real eiderdown and silence" "You're a tramp you're a treat you will shine to the death" "You are shoddy" "But you're flesh you are meat you shall have every breath in my body" "Put me down for a lifetime of success" "Give me credit." "I'll find ways of paying" "Rio de la Plata!" "Florida!" "Correntes!" "Nueve de Julio!" "All I want to know" "Stand back, Buenos Aires" "Because you ought to know what you're gonna get in me" "Just a little touch of..." "Just a little touch of star quality" "Papa!" "Papa!" "Papa!" "Papa!" "Papa!" "Hello angel" "I don't expect my love affairs to last for long" "Never fool myself that my dreams will come true" "Being used to trouble I anticipate it... but all the same I hate it wouldn't you?" "So what happens now?" "So what happens now?" "Take your picture off another wall" "Where am I going to?" "You'll get by you always have before" "Time and time again..." "I've said that I don't care" "That I'm immune to gloom" "That I'm hard through and through" "But every time it matters all my words desert me" "So anyone can hurt me and they do" "So what happens now?" "Another suitcase in another hall" "Where am I going to?" "Where am I going to?" "Call in three months time and I'll be fine" "I know." "Well maybe not that fine but I'll survive anyhow" "I won't recall the names... and places of each sad occasion" "But that's no consolation here and now" "So what happens now?" "Another suitcase in another hall" "Where am I going to?" "You'll get by you always have before." "Where am I going to?" "Don't ask anymore" "Goodnight and thank you whoever" "She is in every magazine been photographed, seen she is known" "We don't like to rush, but your case has been packed" "If she's missed anything you could give her a ring... but she won't always answer the phone" "Oh but it's sad when a love affair dies but we have pretended enough" "It's best that we part, stop fooling ourselves" "Which means..." "There is no one, no one at all" "Never has been and never will be a lover." "Male or female... who hasn't an eye on in fact they rely on tricks they can try on their partner" "They're hoping their lover will help them or keep them." "Support them, promote them" "Don't blame them you're the same" "Goodnight and thank you Emilio" "You've completed your task what more can we ask of you now?" "Please sign the book on the way out the door... and that will be all." "If she needs you she'll call" "But I don't think that's likely somehow" "Oh but it's sad when a love affair dies" "But when we were hot we were hot!" "I know you'll look back on the good times we shared" "Which means..." "There is no one, no one at all..." "Never has been and never will be a lover male or female who hasn't an eye on in fact they rely on tricks they can try on their partner" "They're hoping their lover will help them or keep them support them, promote them" "Don't blame her you're the same" "There is no soap, no soap like Zaz" "No detergent, lotion or oil with such power in the shower" "It's the mother  father of luxury lather." "The talk of the bath, the great ointment" "One little frolic with new Zaz carbolic... you're scented, you'll be sent" "Good night and thank you Senor Jabon" "We are grateful you found her a spot on the sound radio" "We'll think of you every time she's on the air" "We'd love you to stay, but you'd be in the way" "So do up your trousers and go" "Oh but it's sad when a love affair dies" "The decline into silence and doubt." "Our passion was just too intense too survive" "Which means..." "This is a club I should never have joined" "Someone has made us look fools" "Argentine men call the sexual shots" "Someone has altered the rules" "Fame on the wireless as far as it goes it all very well but every girl knows..." "She needs a man she can monopolize... with fingers in dozens of different pies" "Oh but it's sad when a love affair dies" "In June of forty-three there was a military coup" "Behind it was a gang called the G.O.U." "Who did not feel the need to be elected" "They had themselves a party at the point of a gun" "They were slightly to the right of Attilla the Hun" "A bomb or two and very few objected" "Yeah, just one shell and governments fall like flies" "Kapow!" "Die!" "They stumble and fall" "Bye-bye!" "Backs to the wall." "Aim high!" "We're having a ball" "The tank and bullet rule as democracy dies" "The lady's got potential she was setting her sights... on making it in movies with her name in lights" "The greatest social climber since Cinderella" "O.K. she couldn't act, but she had the right friends... and we all know a career depends on knowing the right fella to be stellar" "Yeah, just one shell and governments lose their nerve" "Kapow!" "Die!" "They stumble and fall" "Bye-bye!" "Backs to the wall." "Aim high!" "We're having a ball" "That's how we get the government we deserve" "Now the man behind the President calling the shots... involved so discreetly in a lot of their plots... was Colonel Juan Peron... a would be dictator" "He began in the army out in Italy so... saw Mussolini's rise from the very front row... and reckoned he'd do likewise sooner or later" "Yeah, just one blast and the tear gas falls like rain" "Kapow!" "Die!" "They haven't a chance" "Bye-bye!" "The terrors advance... but one guy doesn't dirty his hands" "Peron was biding time out in the slow lane" "Yeah, suddenly an earthquake hit the town of San Juan!" "Kapow!" "Die!" "They stumble and fall" "Bye-bye!" "Keep away from the wall" "But one guy was having a ball" "The tragedy a golden chance for Peron" "He organized a concert with incredible flair... in aid of all the victims, such a grand affair" "Politicians, actors, stars of every flavor" "It was on January twenty second in nineteen forty four" "A night to remember yeah, that's for sure" "For that's the night that Peron first met Eva" "On this night of a thousand stars... let me take you to heaven's door" "Where the music of love's guitars plays forever more" "Ladies and gentlemen, Augustin Magaldi!" "Magaldi!" "Eva Duarte?" "Your act hasn't changed much" "Neither has yours" "I stand here as a servant of the people... as we come together for a marvelous cause" "You've shown by your presence your deeds and applause... what the people can do true power is yours not the government's... unless it represents the people" "Peron!" "Peron!" "Peron!" "Peron!" "Peron!" "Peron!" "Peron!" "Peron!" "Peron!" "Peron!" "Peron!" "Peron!" "Peron!" "Peron!" "One always picks the easy fight one praises fools... one smothers light..." "One shifts from left to right" "Politices, the art of the possible" "Peron!" "Peron!" "Peron!" "Peron!" "Peron!" "Peron!" "Peron!" "Peron!"