Evita Soundtrack A New Argentina Lyrics

A New Argentina Lyrics

PERON

 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?

 

 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

 

 PERON

 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

 

 

 

 

 

 MOB

 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've hated it too

 But I found my salvation in Peron--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

 

 PERON

 There again we could be foolish

 Not to quit while were 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

 Peron 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!

 

 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!