Che2: People of Argentina, your newly elected president Juan Peron
Crowd: (chanting) Peron! Peron! Peron!
Peron: Argentinoes! Argentinoes! We are all workers now!
Fighting against our common enemy,
tyranny, social injustice, foreign domination of our industry.
Reaching for our common goal,
our independence, our dignity, our pride!
Let the world know that our great nation is awakening
and that its heart beats in the humble bodies of Juan Peron
and his wife, the first lady of Argentina,
Eva Duarte de Peron!
Crowd: Evita! Evita! Evita! Evita!
Eva: It won't be easy, you'll think it strange
That I still need your love after all that I've done.
You won't believe me, all you will see is the girl you once knew
although she's dressed up to the nines at sixes and sevens with you.
I had to let it happen, I had to change
couldn't stay all my life down at heel
looking out of the window staying out of the sun.
So I chose freedom, running around trying everything new,
but nothing impressed me at all,
I never expected it to.
This line kinda amuses me. In "Buenos Aries" she said, "Don't hold back
you are certain to impress." Is she changing her mind? hmmm...
Don't cry for me Argentina,
the truth is I never left you.
All through my wild days
my mad existance
I kept my promise
don't keep your distance.
And as for fortune and as for fame
I never invited them in,
though it seemed to the world they were all I desired.
They are illusions
they're not the solutions they promised to be.
The answer was here all the time,
I love you, and hope you love me.
Don't cry for me Argentina..
People: (hums to the tune)
Eva: Don't cry for me Argentina
the truth is I never left you
all through my wild days
my mad existance
I kept my promise
don't keep your distance.
Have I said too much?
There's nothing more I can think of to say to you.
But all you have to do is look at me to know
that every word is true.
Eva: Just listen to that! The voice of Argentina!
We are adored! We are loved!
Officer: Statesmanship is more than entertaining peasants.
Eva's Relative: We shall see little man!
Crowd: (chanting and gradually getting faster) Evita Peron! and something in spanish.
Eva: I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron in his
noble crusade to rescue his people. I was once as you are now and I promise you this,
we will take the riches from the ogliarchs. Only for you, for all of you! And one day you
too will inherit these treasures! Descamisadoes again with the spanish...grr..
When they fire those canons when the crowds sing of glory it is not just for Peron
but for all of us, for all of us!
Aristocracy: Things have reached a pretty pass
when someone pretty lower class
can be respected and admired.
Female Aristocrat: But our privileged class is dead!
Look who they are calling for now.