Oh, What A Circus Lyrics - Singles - Evita (new Broadway Cast Recording)

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 bringing 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 gonna see and how 

She did nothing for years 

Ensemble: 

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 

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've 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 seventeen October 1945 

But the story's 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 

And who am I who dares to keep 

His head held high while millions weep? 

Why the exception to the rule? 

Opportunist, traitor, fool 

Or just a man who grew and saw 

From seventeen to twenty-four 

His country bled, crucified 

She's not the only one who's died 

Sing you fools but, you've 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 

ENSEMBLE: 

Salve regina mater misericordiae 

Vita dulcedo et spes nostra 

Salve slave regina Peron 

Ad te clemamus exules filii Eva 

Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes 

O clemens o pia 

EVA: 

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 

Ride on my train oh, my people 

And when it's your turn to die 

You'll remember 

They find those cannons sing lamentations 

Not just for Eva for Argentina 

Not just for Eva for everybody 

So share my glory, so share my coffin 

So share my glory, so share my coffin 

CHE: 

It's our funeral too 

Now Eva Peron had every disadvantage 

You need if you're gonna succeed 

No money, no class, no father, no bright lights 

There was nowhere she'd been at the age of fifteen 

As this tango singer found out, a tango singer 

Augustine Migaldi 

Who has the distinction of being 

The first man to be of use to Eva Duerte