Evita - A New Argentina (feat. Bob Gunton, Mandy Patinkin and Patti LuPone) lyrics

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Peron:

Dice are rolling, the knives are out

Would be presidents are all around

I don't say they mean harm, but they'd each give an arm

To see us six feet under ground

Eva:

It doesn't matter what those morons say

Our nation's leaders are a feeble crew

There's only twenty of them anyway

What is twenty next to millions who

Are looking to you?

All you have to do is sit and wait

Keeping out of everybody's way

We'll-- you'll be handed power on a plate

When the ones who matter have their say

And with chaos installed

You can reluctantly agree to be called

Peron:

There again we could be foolish

Not to quit while we're ahead

For distance lends enchantment

And that is why

All exiles are distinguished

More important they're not dead

I could find job satisfaction

In Paraguay

Eva:

This is crazy defeatist talk

Why commit political suicide?

There's no risk, there's no call

For any action at all

When you have unions on your side

Workers:

Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron! Peron!

Che:

A new Argentina!

The chains of the masses untied!

A new Argentina!

The voice of the people cannot be denied!

Eva:

There is only one man who can lead any workers' regime

He lives for your problems, he shares your ideals and your dreams

He supports you for he loves you, understands you, is one of you

If not, how could he love me?

Mob:

A new Argentina!

The workers' battle song!

A new Argentina!

The voice of the people rings out loud and long!

Eva:

Now I am a worker I've suffered the way that you do

I've been unemployed and I've starved and I hated it too

But I found my salvation in Peron, may the nation

Let him save them as he saved me

Che:

A new Argentina!

A new age about to begin!

Che & Secret Police:

A new Argentina!

We face the world together and no dissent within

Individual Workers:

Nationalization of the industries that the foreigners control

Participation in the profits that we make

Shorter hours

Higher wages

Votes for women

Larger dole

More public spending

A bigger slice of every cake

Peron:

It's annoying that we have to fight elections for our cause

The inconvenience, having to get a majority

If normal methods of persuasion fail to win us applause

There are other ways of establishing authority

Secret Police:

We have ways of making you vote for us,

Or at least of making you abstain

Eva:

Peron has resigned from the army and this we avow

The descamisados are those he is marching with now!

He supports you for he loves you, understands you, is one of you

If not, how could he love me?

All:

A new Argentina!

The chains of the masses untied!

A new Argentina!

The voice of the people cannot be,

And will not be, and must not be, denied!

Peron:

There again we could be foolish

Not to quit while we're ahead

I can see me many miles away

Inactive

Sipping cocktails on a terrace

Taking breakfast in bed

Sleeping easy, doing crosswords

It's attractive

Eva:

Don't think I don't think like you,

I often get those nightmares too

They always take some swallowing

Sometimes it's very difficult to keep momentum if

It's you that you are following

Don't close doors

Keep an escape clause

Because we might lose

The Big Apple

But, would I have done, what I did

If I hadn't thought, if I hadn't known

We would take the country?

All:

A new Argentina!

The chains of the masses untied!

A new Argentina!

The voice of the people cannot be,

And will not be, and must not be, denied!