"Learn To Do IT"

Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens

Music by Stephen Flaherty

Voices: Kelsey Grammer (Vladimir) Liz Callaway (Anya) Jonathan Dokuchitz (Dimitri)

Vladimir: You were born in a palace by the sea.

Anastasia: A palace by the sea. Could it be

Vladimir: Yes, that's right. You rode horseback when you were only tree.

Anastasia: Horseback riding? Me?

Vladimir: And the horse...

Dimitri: He was white!

Vladimir: You made faces and terrorized the cook!

Dimitri: Threw him in the brook!

Anastasia: Was I wild?

Dimitri: Wrote the book!

Vladimir: But you behave when your father gave that look!

Dimitri: Imagine how it was!

Vladimir: Your long-forgotten past!

Vladimir, Dimitri: We've lots and lots to teach you and the time is going fast!

Anastasia: All right. I'm ready!

Vladimir: Now, shoulders back and stand up tall

Dimitri: And do not walk, but try to float.

Anastasia: I feel a little foolish. Am I floating?

Vladimir: Like a little boat!

Dimitri: You give a bow.

Anastasia: What happens now?

Vladimir: Your hand receives a kiss!

Vladimir, Dimitri: Most of all, remember this:

Vladimir: If I can learn to do it, you can learn to do it.

Dimitri: Something in you knows it--

Vladimir, Dimitri: There's nothing to it!

Vladimir: Follow in my footsteps, shoe by shoe!

Vladimir, Dimitri: You can learn to do it too!

Vladimir: Now, elbows in and sit up straight.

Dimitri: And never slurp the stroganoff.

Anastasia: I never cared for for stroganoff!

Vladimir: She said that like a Romanov!

Dimitri: The Samovar.

Vladimir: The caviar.

Anastasia: Dessert and then goodnight?

Vladimir, Dimitri: Not until you get this right!

Vladimir: If I can learn to do it

Dimitri: If he can learn to do it

Vladimir: You can learn to do it!

Dimitri: You can learn to do it

Vladimir: Pull yourself together

Vladimir, Dimitri: And you'll pull through it!

Vladimir: Tell yourself it's easy

Vladimir, Dimitri: And it's true! You can learn to do it too!

Vladimir: Next, you must memorize the names of the royalty.Now here we have Kropotkin

Dimitri: Shot Potemkin

Vladimir: In the Botkin.

Anastasia: Oh!

Vladimir: And dear old uncle Vanya loved his vodka

Dimitri: Got it Anya?

Anastasia: No!

Vladimir: The Baron Pushkin

Anastasia: He was?

Dimitri: Short!

Vladimir: Count Anatoly

Anastasia: Had a...

Dimitri: Wart!

Vladimir: Count Sergei

Dimitri: Wore a feathered hat.

Vladimir: I hear he's gotten very fat.

Anastasia: And I recall his yellow cat...

Vladimir: I don't believe we told her that...

Anastasia: If I can learn to do it, I can learn to do it!

Vladimir: Don't know how you knew it.

Anastasia: I simply knew it! Suddenly I feel like someone new...

Vladimir, Dimitri: Anya, you're a dream come true! If I can learn to do it,

Anastasia: If I can learn to do it

Vladimir, Dimitri: You can learn to do it!

Anastasia: You can learn to do it.

Vladimir, Dimitri: Pull yourself together All Three: And you'll pull though it!

Vladimir: Tell yourself it's easy, All Three: And it's true--

Vladimir, Dimitri: You can learn to do it,

Anastasia: Nothing to it!

All Three: You can learn to do it too!