EVA

It won't be easy, you'll think it strange

When I try to explain how I feel

That I still need your love after all that I've done

You won't believe me

All you will see is a 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



Don't cry for me Argentina

The truth is I never left you

All through my wild days

My mad existence

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......



Don't cry for me Argentina

The truth is I never left you

All through my wild days

My mad existence

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



(The CROWD is ecstatically enthusiastic; EVA goes

inside from the balcony)



Just listen to that! The voice of Argentina! We are

adored! We are loved!



OFFICER

Statesmanship is more than entertaining peasants



EVA

We shall see, little man



CROWD

Evita Peron! La Santa Peronista! (Repeated)

-acap