Evita (New Broadway Cast Recording) - Oh, What a Circus lyrics

Oh, what a circus Oh, what a show Argentina has gone to town Over the d**h 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 bringing 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 Ensemble: 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 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've 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 story's 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 And who am I who dares to keep His head held high while millions weep? Why the exception to the rule? Opportunist, traitor, fool Or just a man who grew and saw From seventeen to twenty-four His country bled, crucified She's not the only one who's died Sing you fools but, you've 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 ENSEMBLE: Salve regina mater misericordiae Vita dulcedo et spes nostra Salve slave regina Peron Ad te clemamus 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 Ride on my train oh, my people And when it's your turn to die You'll remember They find those cannons sing lamentations Not just for Eva for Argentina Not just for Eva for everybody So share my glory, so share my coffin So share my glory, so share my coffin CHE: It's our funeral too Now Eva Peron had every disadvantage You need if you're gonna succeed No money, no cla**, no father, no bright lights There was nowhere she'd been at the age of fifteen As this tango singer found out, a tango singer Augustine Migaldi Who has the distinction of being The first man to be of use to Eva Duerte