"Oh, What a Circus"
Frankie Googs
In article <19970331013...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
dali...@aol.com (DaliSalas) wrote:
> I need the words to "Oh, What a Circus" from the film "Evita". It is sung
> by "Che" - Antonio Banderas. Thanks!
Here ya go! My son put this together, knows em all by heart
I've listened to a lot of musicals and have copied down the lyrics. I
shall type up "Oh what a circus" and "Eva and Magaldi/Eva beware of the
city" both from the movie Evita.
Eva: To think that a man as famous as you are could love a poor little
nothing like me.I want to be a part of B.A. Buenos Aires Big apple.
Waiters: She wants to be a part of part of B.A. Buenos Aires Big Apple.
Che: Just listen to that they're on to 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: Manotony past Suburbia departed who could ever be found of the back
of beyond.
Magaldi: Don't hear words that I didn't say.
townsfolk: What's that? you'd desert the girl you love?
Magaldi: The girl I love,what're you talking
about.
Townsfolk: she really britened 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 want to 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.
Room keeper: 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 one 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 site hidden from view at
his Funeral.
Room Keeper: 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 want to be a part of B.A.
Buenos Aires Big Apple.
townfolk: 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",and you'll look at me with a foriegner's eyes the
magical city a younger girl's city a fantasy long since forgotten.
Eva: All you've done to me-was that a young girl's fantasy? I played your
silly 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.
Townsfolk: She's gonna be a part of B.A. Buenos Aires Big Apple.
Magaldi: Eva beware your Ambition It's hungry and cold cant 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 whatever you say I'll not
steal you away.
OH WHAT A CIRCUS
Che: 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,mournin all
day,and mournin all night over,falling over ourselves to get all of the
misery right.Oh what an exit that's how to go.When thier ringing your
curtain down,demand to be buried like Eva Peron.It's quite a sunset and
good for the country in a roundabuot way we've made the front page of
all,the worlds papers today. But who is this Santa Evita,why all this
howling,hysterical sorrow. What kind of godesshas 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.
Crowd :Salve Regina mater misericiordia. Vita duldeco etspes
nostra,Salve,Salve Regina,Ad te clamamus exules filli Eva,Ad te suspiramus
gementes it flentes,a 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 is gone,the glamour's worn thin,that's a pretty
bad state for a state to be in.
Instead of goverment we had a stage. Instead of ideas a prima donna's rage.
Instead of help we were givin a crowd. She didn't say much but she said it
loud. Sing you fools but you got it wrong! Enjoy your prayer because you
haven't got long! Your queen is dead your king is through,she's not coming
back to you.
Crowd: Salve regina mater misericiordia. Vita dulcedo etspes
nostra,Salve,Salve, Regina Peron,ad te clamamus exules filli Eva,ad te
suspiramus gementes ti flentes,a clemens,O pia.
Eva's voice: 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.
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"Life's a goddamn mess, but you wouldn't want to miss it."