Evita Soundtrack Oh What A Circus Lyrics

Oh What A Circus Lyrics

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

 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 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 going to 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

 Salve regina mater misericordiae

 Vita dulcedo et spes nostra

 Salve salve regina Peron

 Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva

 Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes

 O clemens o pia

 

 (A non-descript GIRL moves through the pageantry of the

 funeral. She sings as the voice of the dead Evita)

 

 GIRL

 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