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











MOB

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've hated it too

But I found my salvation in Peron--may the nation

Let him save them as he saved me



MOB AND EVA

A new Argentina!

A new age about to begin!

A new Argentina!

We face the world together and no dissent within



PERON

There again we could be foolish

Not to quit while were ahead

I can see us many miles away

Inactive, sipping cocktails on a terrace,

Taking breakfast in bed, sleeping easy,

Doing nothing, 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?





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 must not be, denied!



CHE

How annoying that they have to fight elections for their cause

The inconvenience--having to get a majority.

If normal methods of persuasion fail to win them applause

There are other ways of establishing authority



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!