Oh What a Circus - From 'Evita' Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

[00:08.82] Oh, what a circus, oh, what a show
[00:13.25] Argentina has gone to town
[00:16.63] Over the death of an actress called Eva Perón
[00:21.66] We've all gone crazy, mourning all day and mourning all night
[00:27.80] Falling over ourselves to get all of the misery right
[00:36.59] Oh, what an exit, that's how to go
[00:40.85] When they're ringing your curtain down
[00:44.48] Demand to be buried like Eva Perón
[00:49.39] It's quite a sunset and good for the country in a roundabout way
[00:55.75] We've made the front page of all the world's papers today
[01:03.14] But who is this Santa Evita?
[01:06.44] Why all this howling, hysterical sorrow?
[01:10.14] What kind of goddess has lived among us?
[01:13.84] How will we ever get by without her?
[01:20.58] She had her moments, she had some style
[01:25.24] The best show in town was the crowd
[01:28.41] Outside the Casa Rosada crying, "Eva Perón"
[01:33.57] But that's all gone now
[01:36.22] As soon as the smoke from the funeral clears
[01:39.92] We're all gonna see and how she did nothing for years
[01:47.74] Salve Regina mater misericordiae
[01:53.16] Vita dulcedo et spes nostra
[01:56.47] Salve, salve, Regina
[02:01.29] Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva
[02:07.48] Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes
[02:12.02] O clemens o pia
[02:14.63] You let down your people, Evita
[02:17.98] You were supposed to have been immortal
[02:21.68] That's all they wanted, not much to ask for
[02:25.20] But in the end, you could not deliver
[02:31.41] Sing, you fools, but you got it wrong
[02:33.76] Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long
[02:36.13] Your queen is dead, your king is through
[02:38.56] She's not coming back to you
[02:41.92] Show business kept us all alive
[02:44.05] Since 17 October 1945
[02:46.45] But the star has gone, the glamor's worn thin
[02:49.38] That's a pretty bad state for a state to be in
[02:52.27] Instead of government, we had a stage
[02:54.76] Instead of ideas, a prima donna's rage
[02:56.97] Instead of help, we were given a crowd
[02:59.46] She didn't say much, but she said it loud
[03:02.82] Sing, you fools, but you got it wrong
[03:05.21] Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long
[03:07.55] Your queen is dead, your king is through
[03:09.94] She's not coming back to you
[03:17.48] Salve Regina mater misericordiae
[03:26.15] Vita dulcedo et spes nostra
[03:32.19] Salve, salve, Regina Perón
[03:38.72] (Ad te) ad te clamamus exules filii Eva
[03:51.08] Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes
[03:59.14] O clemens o pia
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[04:56.19] Don't cry for me, Argentina
[05:00.45] For I am ordinary, unimportant
[05:05.73] And undeserving of such attention
[05:10.97] Unless we all are, I think we all are
[05:16.37] So share my glory, so share my coffin
[05:24.35] So share my glory, so share my coffin
[05:36.76] It's our funeral, too
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