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The Complete Motion Picture Music Soundtrack
Lyrics by TIM RICE |  |
- ACT ONE
- 1. A CINEMA IN BUENOS AIRES, 26 JULY 1952
- (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 Perón's own movies was used]. The soundtrack dialogue is in Spanish, the music melodramatic. Suddenly the film grinds to a halt. The people in the cinema begin to protest but are silenced by an announcement).
- THEATRE MANAGER
It is my sad duty to inform you that Eva Perón, spiritual leader of the nation, entered immortality at 8:25 this evening.
- 1. A CINEMA IN BUENOS AIRES, 26 JULY 1952
- 2. REQUIEM FOR EVITA
- (EVA's funeral. CHE is the only non-participant. He moves through the mourners, apparently unseen.)
- CROWD
- (EVA's funeral. CHE is the only non-participant. He moves through the mourners, apparently unseen.)
- Requiem aeternum dona Evita, Requiem aeternum dona Evita
Requiem Evita, Requiem Evita
Evita, Evita
Evita, Evita
Bis
- 3. OH WHAT A CIRCUS
- CHE (Interior - bar, Exterior - funeral)
- CHE (Interior - bar, Exterior - funeral)
- 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 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 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!
- 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
- 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
She's not coming back to you
Show business kept us all alive
Since 17 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 (softly)
- Salve regina mater misericordiae
Vita dulcedo et spes nostra
Salve salve regina Perón
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
- 4. ON THIS NIGHT OF A THOUSAND STARS
- (Flashback to 1934 and to a nightclub in Junin, EVA's home town. EVA DUARTE is fifteen. The cabaret is nearly over. MAGALDI is singing with great gusto.)
- CHE
- (Flashback to 1934 and to a nightclub in Junin, EVA's home town. EVA DUARTE is fifteen. The cabaret is nearly over. MAGALDI is singing with great gusto.)
- Now Eva Perón had every disadvantage you need if you're gonna
succeed. No money, no class, no father, no bright lights--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.
- MAGALDI (The
final song of his act)
- On this night of a thousand stars
Let me take you to heaven's door
Where the music of love's guitars
Plays for evermore!
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 feared
Wasn't there anymore
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 for evermore!
- 5. EVA AND MAGALDI / EVA BEWARE OF THE CITY
- (EVA joins MAGALDI backstage. CHE is always nearby.)
- EVA
- (EVA joins MAGALDI backstage. CHE is always nearby.)
- To think that a man, as famous as you are, could love a poor little
nothing like me!
I wanna be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!
- EVA and FAMILY
- She wants to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!
- CHE
- Just listen to that! They're onto you Magaldi! I'd get out
while you can.
- EVA
- It's happened at last--I'm starting to get started--I'm moving out with
my man.
- MAGALDI
- Now Eva don't get carried away-
- EVA
- Monotony past--suburbia departed--who could ever be fond of the back
of beyond?
- MAGALDI
- Don't hear words that I didn't say.
- EVA's FAMILY
- What's that? You'd desert the girl you love?
- MAGALDI
- The girl I love? What are you talking about?
- EVA's FAMILY
- 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-
- EVA
- 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?
- BROTHER
- 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.
- MAGALDI
- 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-
- EVA
- 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!
- BROTHER
- Do all your one-night stands give you this trouble?
- MAGALDI
- 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
- EVA
- 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 wanna be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!
- EVA and FAMILY
- She wants to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!
- MAGALDI
- 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
- EVA
- All you've done to me--was that a young girl's fantasy?
I played your city games alright--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!
- EVA and FAMILY
- She's gonna be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!
- MAGALDI
- Eva, beware your ambition
It's hungry and cold, can't be controlled, will run wild
This in a man is a 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!
- 6. BUENOS AIRES
- (EVA and MAGALDI arrive in Buenos Aires.)
- EVA
- (EVA and MAGALDI arrive in 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 ought to know what'cha 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 what'cha gonna get in me
Just a little touch of star quality!
- (In a bar, dancing the tango)
- 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 what'cha gonna get in me
Just a little touch of
Just a little touch of
Just a little touch of star quality!
- 7. ANOTHER SUITCASE IN ANOTHER HALL
- (MAGALDI's appartment)
- EVA
- (MAGALDI's appartment)
- 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?
- 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?
- (In a bar)
- 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?
- 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 go?
- (Audition)
- 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 this sad occasion
But that's no consolation--here and now
So what happens now?
- GIRLS
- Another suitcase in another hall
- EVA
- So what happens now?
- GIRLS
- Take your picture off another wall
- EVA
- Where am I going to?
- GIRLS
- You'll get by, you always have before
- EVA
- Where am I going to?
- PHOTOGRAPHER
- Don't ask anymore
- 8. GOODNIGHT AND THANK YOU
- CHE (To EVA's First Lover, the Photographer)
- CHE (To EVA's First Lover, the Photographer)
- Goodnight 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
- 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........
- CHE and EVA
- 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
- CHE (To EVA's second lover)
- Goodnight and thank you Emilio
You've completed your task, what more can we ask
Of you now?
Please sign the book on your 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
- CHE
- Which means........
- CHE and EVA
- 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
- EVA (Doing an ad on the radio)
- There is no soap, no soap like Zazz
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 Zazz kabbalic
Your scented
You'll be sent.
- CHE
- Goodnight 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
- 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........
- (By now a fairly long line of EVA's rejected LOVERS has formed)
- LOVERS
- 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
- 9. THE LADY'S GOT POTENTIAL
- (Five members of the G.O.U., a right-wing grouping of officers within the military government that seized power in Argentina in 1943, including Colonel Juan PERÓN, are seen moving slowly back and forth in rocking chairs. During this sequence, every time the music stops, the officers rise and one chair is removed. By the end of the scene there is just on chair left, occupied by PERÓN.)
- CHE
- (Five members of the G.O.U., a right-wing grouping of officers within the military government that seized power in Argentina in 1943, including Colonel Juan PERÓN, are seen moving slowly back and forth in rocking chairs. During this sequence, every time the music stops, the officers rise and one chair is removed. By the end of the scene there is just on chair left, occupied by PERÓN.)
- 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 stubble and fall
Bye bye
Backs to the wall
Aim high
We're having a ball
The tank and bullet ruled 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
Okay 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
Ka-pow, Die
They stubble 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 Perón, would-be dictator
He began in the army out in Italy so
Saw Mussolini's rise from the very front row
I reckon he'd do likewise sooner or later
Just one blast and the tear gas falls like rain
Ka-pow, Die
They haven't a chance
Bye bye
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
Ka-pow, Die
They stubble and fall
Bye bye
Keep away from the wall
But one guy
Was having a ball
The tragedy a golden chance for Perón
He organized a concert with incredible flair
He named off all the victims, such a grand affair
Politicians, actors, stars of every flavor
It was January 22nd, 1944
A night to remember, yeah that's for sure
For that's the night that Perón first met Eva
For that's the night that Perón first met Eva.
- 10. CHARITY CONCERT / THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE
- (Backstage at the Luna Park Stadium. EVA by now a successful actress, and PERÓN, by now one of the most powerful men in the military government, are both present. EVA's old friend MAGALDI is finishing his act on stage.)
- MAGALDI
- (Backstage at the Luna Park Stadium. EVA by now a successful actress, and PERÓN, by now one of the most powerful men in the military government, are both present. EVA's old friend MAGALDI is finishing his act on stage.)
- 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 for evermore!
- CHE
Ladies and gentlemen! Agustin Magaldi!
- (MAGALDI comes off stage and runs into EVA)
- EVA
- (MAGALDI comes off stage and runs into EVA)
- MAGALDI!
- MAGALDI
- Eva Duarte!
- EVA
- Your act hasn't changed much
- MAGALDI
- Neither has yours
- (MAGALDI leaves. The crowd begins to call for PERÓN.
PERÓN pushes his way onto the stage.)
- CROWD
- CROWD
- Perón! Perón! Perón!
- PERÓN
- 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
- (PERÓN leaves the stage and finds himself face to face with EVA)
- CHE
- CHE
- One always picks
The easy fight
One praises fools
One smothers light
One shifts from left to right
Politics
The Art of the Possible
- EVA
- Colonel Perón?
- PERÓN
- Eva Duarte?
- EVA and PERÓN
- I've heard so much about you!
I am amazed for I'm only an actress (a soldier)
Nothing to shout about (One of the thousands)
Only a girl on the boards (Defending the country he loves)
- EVA
- But when you act, the things you do affect us all
- PERÓN
- 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
- PERÓN
- So am I--what a fortunate coincidence. Maybe you're my reward
for my efforts here tonight.
- EVA (Exterior - entering limousine)
- 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
- (In the car)
- 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?
- (Up the stairs)
- 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
- (In her appartment, dancing)
- PERÓN
- PERÓN
- 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
- (Later, EVA and PERÓN arrive at PERÓN's apartment. PERÓN's 16 year-old MISTRESS is in bed.)
- EVA
- EVA
- 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, 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--
- MISTRESS
- So what happens now?
So what happens now?
Where am I going to?
- PERÓN
- You'll get by you always have before
- MISTRESS
- Where am I going to?
- EVA
- Don't ask anymore
- (EVA turns PERÓN's MISTRESS out into the hall.)
- 13. PERÓN'S LATEST FLAME
- CHE
- On the 9th February 1935, in Buenos Aires--a polo match, between a team of leading Argentine players and the touring British side. The British ambassador said he had never seen a social occasion quite like it. Even by the standards of Buenos Aires society the gathering at the polo ground glittered. The Rolls and the Daimlers, the hampers from Harrod's, the clothes, the diamonds, the crystal, the wines, the procession of nannies from England and France. The result of the match? Oh yes-- the home team won, but as the British ambassador pointed out, that did not reflect badly on British horsemanship. Three of the Argentine players were educated at Eton.
- CHE
- 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
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 in 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
- ...Perón's latest flame?
- ARMY
- You said it brother
- CHE
- Should you wish to cause great distress
In the tidiest officers' mess
Just mention her name
- ARMY
- 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 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 (on the air)
- 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
- 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 be on our guard
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!
- (EVA, the glamorous movie star, enters, flanked by HEAVIES.)
- CHE (in the guise of a reporter)
- CHE (in the guise of a reporter)
- 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 lines 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 Perón?
- HEAVIES
- Goodnight and thank you
- (They push CHE aside and EVA out)
- ARMY
- 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 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 who's using him
He' exceptionally dim
- ARISTOCRATS
- Things have reached a pretty pass
When someone pretty lower class
Graceless and vulgar, uninspired
Can be accepted and admired
- 14. A NEW ARGENTINA
- (In the car)
- PERÓN
- (In the car)
- 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 under ground
- EVA
- 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?
- (In the elevator)
- 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
- PERÓN
- 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
- EVA
- 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
- CHE
- A new Argentina!
The chains of the masses untied!
A new Argentina!
The voice of the people cannot be denied!
- EVA
- There is only one man who can lead any workers' regime
He lives for your problems, he shares your ideals and your dreams
He supports you for he loves you, understands you, is one of you
If not--how could he love me?
- MOB
- A new Argentina!
The workers' battle song!
A new Argentina!
The voice of the people rings out loud and long!
- EVA
- Now I am a worker I've suffered the way that you do
I've been unemployed and I've starved and I hated it too
But I found my salvation in Perón--may the nation
Let him save them as he saved me
- MOB and EVA
- A new Argentina!
A new age about to begin!
A new Argentina!
We face the world together and no dissent within
- PERÓN (In prison)
- 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
- EVA
- 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?
- EVA (speaking to the crowd)
- 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?
- ALL
- A new Argentina!
The chains of the masses untied!
A new Argentina!
The voice of the people cannot be, and must not be denied!
- PRESIDENT
Release him!
- CHE
- CHE
- 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
- ALL
- A new Argentina!
The chains of the masses untied!
A new Argentina!
The voice of the people cannot be, and will not be, and must not be denied!
END OF ACT ONE
