Evita Soundtrack The Lady`s Got Potential Lyrics

The Lady`s Got Potential Lyrics

(Five members of the G.O.U., a right-wing grouping of

 officers within the military government that seized power

 in Argentina in 1943, including Colonel Juan PERON,

 are seen moving slowly back and forth in rocking chairs.

 During this sequence, every time the music stops, the

 officers rise and one chair is removed. By the end of the

 scene there is just on chair left, occupied by PERON.)

 

 

 CHE

 In June of 43 there was a military coup

 Behind it was a gang called the G.O.U.

 Who did not feel the need to be elected

 

 They had themselves a party at the point of a gun

 They were slightly to the right of Attila the Hun

 A bomb or two and very few objected

 

 Just one shell and governments fall like flies

 Ka-pow, Die

 They stubble and fall

 Bye bye

 Backs to the wall

 Aim high

 We're having a ball

 The tank and bullet ruled as democracy dies

 

 The lady's got potential

 She was setting her sights

 Of making it in movies 

 With her name in lights

 The greatest social climber 

 Since Cinderella 

 

 Okay she couldn't act

 But she had the right friends

 And we all know a career depends

 On knowing the right fella to be stellar. 

 

 Just one shell and governments lose their nerve

 Ka-pow, Die

 They stubble and fall

 Bye, bye

 Backs to the wall

 Aim high

 We're having a ball

 That's how we get the government we deserve

 

 Now the man behind the president 

 Calling the shots

 Involved so discreetly in a lot of their plots

 was Colonel Juan Peron would-be dictator

 

 He began in the army out in Italy so

 Saw Mussolini's rise from the very front row

 I reckon he'd do likewise sooner or later

 

 Just one blast and the tear gas falls like rain

 Ka-pow, Die

 They haven't a chance

 Bye bye

 The terrorists advance

 But one guy 

 Doesn't dirty his hands

 Peron was biding time out in the slow lane.

 

 Suddenly a earthquake hit the town of San Juan

 Ka-pow, Die

 They stubble and fall

 Bye bye

 Keep away from the wall

 But one guy 

 Was having a ball

 The tragedy a golden chance for Peron

 

 He organized a concert with incredible flair

 He named off all the victims 

      such a grand affair

 Politicians, actors, stars of every flavor

 It was January 22, 1944

 A night to remember yeah that's for sure

 For that's the night that Peron first met Eva

 For that's the night that Peron first met Eva.