Evita vol. 1 movie - Oh What a Circus lyrics

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Song by Antonio Banderas and Madonna<br /><br>

[Che:]<br>

Oh what a circus, oh what a show<br>

Argentina has gone to town<br>

Over the death of an actress called Eva Peron<br>

We've all gone crazy<br>

Mourning all day and mourning all night<br>

Falling over ourselves to get all of the misery right<br>

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Oh what an exit, that's how to go<br>

When they're ringing your curtain down<br>

Demand to be buried like Eva Peron<br>

It's quite a sunset<br>

And good for the country in a roundabout way<br>

We've made the front page of all the world's papers today<br>

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But who is this Santa Evita?<br>

Why all this howling, hysterical sorrow?<br>

What kind of goddess has lived among us?<br>

How will we ever get by without her?<br>

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She had her moments, she had some style<br>

The best show in town was the crowd<br>

Outside the Casa Rosada crying, "Eva Peron"<br>

But that's all gone now<br>

As soon as the smoke from the funeral clears<br>

We're all gonna see and how, she did nothing for years<br>

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[Crowd:]<br>

Salve regina mater misericordiae<br>

Vita dulcedo et spes nostra<br>

Salve salve regina<br>

Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva<br>

Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes<br>

O clemens o pia<br>

Hail, oh queen, mother of mercy <br>

Our life, sweetness, and hope <br>

Hail, hail, oh queen <br>

To you we cry, exiled sons of Eve <br>

To you we sigh, mourning and weeping <br>

Oh clement, oh loving one <br>

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[Che:]<br>

You let down your people Evita<br>

You were supposed to have been immortal<br>

That's all they wanted, not much to ask for<br>

But in the end you could not deliver<br>

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Sing you fools, but you got it wrong<br>

Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long<br>

Your queen is dead, your king is through<br>

And she's not coming back to you<br>

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Show business kept us all alive<br>

Since seventeen October 1945<br>

But the star has gone, the glamour's worn thin<br>

That's a pretty bad state for a state to be in<br>

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Instead of government we had a stage<br>

Instead of ideas, a prima donna's rage<br>

Instead of help we were given a crowd<br>

She didn't say much, but she said it loud<br>

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Sing you fools, but you got it wrong<br>

Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long<br>

Your queen is dead, your king is through<br>

She's not coming back to you<br>

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[Crowd:]<br>

Salve regina mater misericordiae<br>

Vita dulcedo et spes nostra<br>

Salve salve regina Peron<br>

Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva<br>

Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes<br>

O clemens o pia<br>

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[Eva:]<br>

Don't cry for me Argentina<br>

For I am ordinary, unimportant<br>

And undeserving of such attention<br>

Unless we all are, I think we all are<br>

So share my glory, so share my coffin<br>

So share my glory, so share my coffin<br>

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[Che:]<br>

It's our funeral too<br>

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