DISC ONE

1. A CINEMA IN BUENOS AIRES, 26 JULY 1952

(An audience is watching a less than distinguished movie. The soundtrack dialogue is in Spanish, the music melodramatic. Suddenly the film grinds to a halt. The people in the cinema begin to protest but are silenced by an announcement)

THE VOICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE PRESS

It is my sad duty to inform you that Eva Peron, spiritual leader of the nation, entered immortality at 8.25 this evening.


2. REQUIEM FOR EVITA

(EVA's funeral. CHE is the only non-participant. He moves through the mourners, apparently unseen.)


CROWD

Requiem aeternum dona Evita
Requiem Evita
Evita
Evita



3. OH WHAT A CIRCUS

CHE

Oh what a circus! Oh what a show!
Argentina has gone to town
Over the death of an actress called Eva Peron
We've all gone crazy
Mourning all day and mourning all night
Falling over ourselves to get all
Of the misery right

Oh what an exit! That's how to go!
When they're ringing your curtain down
Demand to be buried like Eva Peron
It's quite a sunset
And good for the country in a roundabout way
We've made the front page of all the world's papers today

But who is this Santa Evita?
Why all this howling hysterical sorrow?
What kind of goddess has lived among us?
How will we ever get by without her?

She had her moments--she had some style
The best show in town was the crowd
Outside the Casa Rosada crying, "Eva Peron"
But that's all gone now
As soon as the smoke from the funeral clears
We're all going to see and how she did nothing for years!

CROWD
Salve regina mater misericordiae
Vita dulcedo et spes nostra
Salve salve regina
Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes
O clemens o pia

CHE
You let down your people Evita
You were supposed to have been immortal
That's all they wanted
Not much to ask for
But in the end you could not deliver

Sing you fools! But you got it wrong
Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long
Your queen is dead, your king is through
She's not coming back to you

Show business kept us all alive
Since 17 October 1945
But the star has gone, the glamour's worn thin
That's a pretty bad state for a state to be in

Instead of government we had a stage
Instead of ideas a prima donna's rage
Instead of help we were given a crowd
She didn't say much but she said it loud

Sing you fools? But you got it wrong
Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long
Your queen is dead, your king is through
She's not coming back to you

CROWD
Salve regina mater misericordiae
Vita dulcedo et spes nostra
Salve salve regina Peron
Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes
O clemens o pia

(A non-descript GIRL moves through the pageantry of the funeral. She sings as the voice of the dead Evita)

GIRL
Don't cry for me Argentina
For I am ordinary, unimportant
And undeserving of such attention
Unless we all are--I think we all are

So share my glory, so share my coffin
So share my glory, so share my coffin

CHE
It's our funeral too


4. ON THIS NIGHT OF A THOUSAND STARS

(Flashback to 1934 and to a nightclub in Junin, EVA's home town. EVA DUARTE is fifteen. The cabaret is nearly over. MAGALDI is singing with great gusto.)

CHE
Now Eva Peron had every disadvantage you need if
You're going to succeed. No money, no class, no father,
No bright lights--there was nowhere she'd been at the age
Of fifteen, as this tango singer found out.
Agustin Magaldi--who has the distinction of being the
First man to be of use to Eva Duarte.

MAGALDI (The final song of his act)
On this night of a thousand stars
Let me take you to heaven's door
Where the music of love's guitars
Plays for evermore!

In the glow of those twinkling lights
We shall love through eternity
On this night in a million nights
Fly away with me!

I never dreamed that a kiss could be as sweet as this
--now I know that it can
I used to wander alone without a love of my own
I was a desperate man
But all my grief disappeared and all the sorrow I feared
Wasn't there anymore
On that magical day when you first came my way
Mi Amor!

On this night...
On this night...

On this night of a thousand stars
Let me take you to heaven's door
Where the music of love's guitars
Plays for evermore!



5.EVA AND MAGALDI / EVA BEWARE OF THE CITY

(MAGALDI joins EVA and her family--mother, 3 sisters, brother--at their table. CHE is loitering nearby at the bar.)

EVA
To think that a man, as famous as you are, could love a
Poor little nothing like me!
I want to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!

EVA and FAMILY
She wants to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!

CHE
Just listen to that! They're onto you Magaldi! I'd get out
While you can

EVA
It's happened at last--I'm starting to get started--I'm
Moving out with my man

MAGALDI
Now Eva don't get carried away-

EVA
Monotony past--suburbia departed--who could ever be
Fond of the back of beyond?

MAGALDI
Don't hear words that I didn't say

EVA's FAMILY
What's that? You'd desert the girl you love?

MAGALDI
The girl I love? What are you talking about?

EVA's FAMILY
She really brightened up your out of town engagement,
She gave you all she had--she wasn't in your contract
--you must be quite relieved that no-one's told the papers
--so far-

EVA
I want to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!
Would I have done what I did if I hadn't thought, if I
Hadn't known, we would stay together?

CHE
Seems to me there's no point in resisting, she's made up
her mind, you've no choice. Why don't you be the man
who discovered her? You'll never be remembered for
your voice.

MAGALDI
The city can be paradise for those who have the cash,
the class and the connections--what you need to make a
splash. The likes of you get swept up in the morning
with the trash--if you were rich or middle class-

EVA
Screw the middle classes! I will never accept them! My father's
Other family were middle class and we were kept out of
Sight, hidden from view, at his funeral!

CHE
Do all your one night stands give you this trouble?

MAGALDI
Eva, beware of the city
It's hungry and cold, can't be controlled, it is mad
Those who are fools are swallowed up whole
And those who are not become
What they should not become
Changed--in short they go bad

EVA
Bad is good for me--I'm bored, so clean and so ignored
I've only been predictable--respectable!
Birds fly out of here so why oh why oh why the hell
can't I
I only want variety--of society!
I want to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!

EVA and FAMILY
She wants to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!

MAGALDI
Five years from now I shall come back
And finally say, you have your way--come to town
But you'll look at me with a foreigner's eyes
The magical city a
Younger girl's city, a
Fantasy long since put down

EVA
All you've done to me--was that a young girl's fantasy?
I played your city games alright--didn't I?
I already know what cooks, how the dirty city feels
and looks
I tasted it last night, didn't I?
I'm going to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!
EVA and FAMILY
She's going to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!

MAGALDI
Eva beware your ambition
It's hungry and cold, can't be controlled, will run wild
This in a man is danger enough
But you are a woman, not
Even a woman, not
Very much more than a child and whatever you say
I'll not steal you away

6. BUENOS AIRES

(EVA and MAGALDI arrive in Buenos Aires)

EVA
What's new Buenos Aires?
I'm new--I want to say I'm just a little stuck on you
You'll be on me too!

I get out here Buenos Aires
Stand back--you ought to know what'cha gonna get in me
Just a little touch of star quality!

Fill me up with your heat, with your noise, with your
dirt, overdo me
Let me dance to your beat, make it loud. let it hurt,
run it through me

Don't hold back you are certain to impress
Tell the driver this is where I'm staying

Hello Buenos Aires!
Get this--just look at me, dressed up somewhere to go
We'll put on a show!

Take me in at your flood, give me speed, give me lights,
set me humming
Shoot me up with your blood, wine me up with your
nights, watch me coming

All I want is a whole lot of excess
Tell the singer this is where I'm playing

Stand back Buenos Aires!
Because you ought to know what'cha gonna get in me
Just a little touch of star quality!

And if ever I go too far
It's because of the things you are
Beautiful town--I love you
And if I need a moment's rest
Give your lover the very best
Real eiderdown--and silence

You're a tramp, you're a treat, you will shine to the
death, you are shoddy
But you're flesh, you are meat, you shall have every
breath in my body

Put me down for a lifetime of success
Give me credit--I'll find ways of paying

Rio de la Plata! Florida! Corrientes! Nueve de Julio!
All I want to know!

Stand back Buenos Aires!
Because you oughta know what'cha gonna get in me
Just a little touch of
Just a little touch of
Just a little touch of star quality!


7. ANOTHER SUITCASE IN ANOTHER HALL

EVA
I don't expect my love affairs to last for long
Never fool myself that my dreams will come true
Being used to trouble I anticipate it
But all the same I hate it--wouldn't you?
So what happens now?

CHE
Another suitcase in another hall

EVA
So what happens now?

CHE
Take your picture off another wall

EVA
Where am I going to?

CHE
You'll get by, you always have before

EVA
Where am I going to?

Time and time again I've said that I don't care
That I'm immune to gloom, that I'm hard through
and through
But every time it matters all my words desert me
So anyone can hurt me--and they do
So what happens now?

CHE
Another suitcase in another hall

EVA
So what happens now?

CHE
Take your picture off another wall

EVA
Where am I going to?

CHE
You'll get by you always have before

EVA
Where am I going go?

Call in three months time and I'll be fine I know
Well maybe not that fine, but I'll survive anyhow
I won't recall the names and places of each sad occasion
But that's no consolation--here and now
So what happens now?

CHE
Another suitcase in another hall

EVA
So what happens now?

CHE
Take your picture off another wall

EVA
Where am I going to?

CHE
You'll get by, you always have before

EVA
Where am I going to?

CHE
Don't ask anymore


8. GOODNIGHT AND THANK YOU

CHE (To EVA's FIRST LOVER)
Goodnight and thank you whoever
She's in every magazine, been photographed, seen
She is known
We don't like to rush but your case has been packed
If she's missed anything
You could give her a ring
But she won't always answer the phone

EVA
Of but it's sad when a love affair dies
But we have pretended enough
It's best that we stop fooling ourselves

CHE
Which means.........

CHE and EVA
There is no-one, no-one at all
Never has been and never will be a lover
Male or female
Who hasn't an eye on
In fact they rely on
Tricks they can try on
Their partner
They're hoping their lover will help them or keep them
Support them, promote them
Don't blame them
You're the same

CHE
Goodnight and thank you Emilio
You've completed your task, what more can we ask
Of you now?
Please sign the book on your way out the door
That will be all
If she needs you she'll call
But I don't think that's likely somehow

EVA
Oh but it's sad when a love affair dies
But when we were hot we were hot
I know you'll look back on the good times we've shared

CHE
Which means...............

CHE and EVA
There is no-one, no-one at all
Never has been and never will be a lover
Male or female
Who hasn't an eye on
In fact they rely on
Tricks they can try on
Their partner
They're hoping their lover will help them or keep them
Support them, promote them
Don't blame her
You're the same

EVA
There is no soap, no soap like Zazz
No detergent, lotion or oil with such power
in the shower
It's the mother and father of luxury lather
The talk of the bath
The great ointment
One little frolic
With new Zazz kabbalic
Your scented
You'll be sent.

CHE
Goodnight and thank you Senor Gabor
We are grateful you found her a spot on the sound
radio
We'll think of you every time she's on the air
We'd love you to stay
But you'd be in the way
So do up your trousers and go

EVA
Oh but it's sad when a love affair dies
The decline into silence and doubt
Our passion was just too intense to survive

CHE
Which means...................

(By now a fairly long line of EVA's rejected LOVERS has formed)

LOVERS
This is a club I should never have joined
Someone has made us look fools
Argentine men call the sexual shots
Someone has altered the rules

EVA
Fame on the wireless as far as it goes
Is all very well, but every girl knows

CHE
She needs a man she can monopolize
With fingers in dozens of different pies

LOVERS
Oh but it's sad when a love affair dies


9. THE LADY´S GOT POTENTIAL

(Five members of the G.O.U., a right-wing grouping of officers within the military government that seized power
in Argentina in 1943, including Colonel Juan PERON, are seen moving slowly back and forth in rocking chairs.
During this sequence, every time the music stops, the officers rise and one chair is removed. By the end of the
scene there is just on chair left, occupied by PERON.)

CHE
In June of 43 there was a military coup
Behind it was a gang called the G.O.U.
Who did not feel the need to be elected

They had themselves a party at the point of a gun
They were slightly to the right of Attila the Hun
A bomb or two and very few objected

Just one shell and governments fall like flies
Ka-pow, Die
They stubble and fall
Bye bye
Backs to the wall
Aim high
We're having a ball
The tank and bullet ruled as democracy dies

The lady's got potential
She was setting her sights
Of making it in movies
With her name in lights
The greatest social climber
Since Cinderella

Okay she couldn't act
But she had the right friends
And we all know a career depends
On knowing the right fella to be stellar.

Just one shell and governments lose their nerve
Ka-pow, Die
They stubble and fall
Bye, bye
Backs to the wall
Aim high
We're having a ball
That's how we get the government we deserve

Now the man behind the president
Calling the shots
Involved so discreetly in a lot of their plots
was Colonel Juan Peron would-be dictator

He began in the army out in Italy so
Saw Mussolini's rise from the very front row
I reckon he'd do likewise sooner or later

Just one blast and the tear gas falls like rain
Ka-pow, Die
They haven't a chance
Bye bye
The terrorists advance
But one guy
Doesn't dirty his hands
Peron was biding time out in the slow lane.

Suddenly a earthquake hit the town of San Juan
Ka-pow, Die
They stubble and fall
Bye bye
Keep away from the wall
But one guy
Was having a ball

The tragedy a golden chance for Peron
He organized a concert with incredible flair
He named off all the victims
such a grand affair
Politicians, actors, stars of every flavor

It was January 22, 1944
A night to remember yeah that's for sure
For that's the night that Peron first met Eva
For that's the night that Peron first met Eva.



10. CHARITY CONCERT/THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE

(Backstage at the Luna Park Stadium. EVA by now a successful actress, and PERON, by now one of the most powerful men in the military government, are both present. EVA's old friend MAGALDI is finishing his act on stage).


MAGALDI
On this night...
On this night...

On this night of a thousand stars
Let me take you to heaven's door
Where the music of love's guitars
Plays for evermore!


(MAGALDI comes off stage and runs into EVA)

EVA
Magaldi?

MAGALDI
Eva Duarte?

EVA
Your act hasn't changed much.

MAGALDI
Neither has yours.

Crowd
Peron, Peron, Peron.

(MAGALDI leaves. The crowd begins to call for PERON. PERON pushes his way onto the stage.)

PERON
I stand here as a servant of the people.
As we come together for a marvelous cause
You've shown by your presence, your deeds, and applause
What the people can do true power is your's
not the government unless it represents the people

CHE
Juan always picks the easy fight
Juan praises fools
Juan smothers light
Juan shifts from left to right
Politics the art of the possible



11. I'D BE SURPRISINGLY GOOD FOR YOU

(PERON leaves the stage and finds himself face to face with EVA).

EVA
Colonel Peron?

PERON
Eva Duarte?

EVA and PERON
I've heard so much about you!
I'm amazed for I'm only an actress (a soldier)
Nothing to shout about (One of the thousands)
Only a girl on the edge (Defending the country he loves).

EVA
But when you act, the things you do affect us all.

PERON
But when you act, you take us away from the squalor of
The real world--Are you here on your own?

EVA
Yes, Oh yes.

PERON
So am I--what a fortunate coincidence. Maybe you're my
Reward for my efforts here tonight.

EVA
It seems crazy but you must believe
There's nothing calculated, nothing planned
Please forgive me if I seem naive
I would never want to force your hand
But please understand
I'd be good for you.

I don't always rush in like this
Twenty seconds after saying hello
Telling strangers I'm too good to miss
If I'm wrong I hope you'll tell me so

But you really should know
I'd be good for you
I'd be surprisingly good for you.

I won't go on if I'm boring you
But do you understand my point of view
Do you like what you hear, what you see, and would
you be
Good for me too?

I'm not talking of a hurried night
A frantic tumble then a shy goodbye
Creeping home before it gets too light
That's not the reason that I caught your eye
Which has to imply
I'd be good for you
I'd be surprisingly good for you

PERON
Please go on--you enthrall me!
I can understand you perfectly
And I like what I hear, what I see, and knowing me
I would be good for you too

EVA
I'm not talking of a hurried night
A frantic tumble then a shy goodbye
Creeping home before it gets too light
That's not the reason that I caught your eye
Which has to imply
I'd be good for you
I'd be surprisingly good for you.



12. HELLO AND GOODBYE

(EVA and PERON arrive at PERON's apartment. PERON's 16 year-old MISTRESS is in bed).


EVA
Hello and goodbye!
I've just unemployed you
You can go back to school--you had a good run
I'm sure he enjoyed you
Don't act sad or surprised, let's be friends, civilized
Come on little one!
Don't sit there like a dummy!
The day you knew would arrive is here--you'll survive
So move, funny face!

I like your conversation--you've a catchy turn of phrase
Your obviously going through some adolescent phase


MISTRESS
So what happens now
So what happens now
Where am I going to

CHE
You'll get by you always have before

MISTRESS
Where am I going to

EVA
Don't ask anymore

(EVA turns PERON's MISTRESS out into the hall.)



13. PERON'S LATEST FLAME

CHE
At the watering-holes of the well-to-do
I detect a resistance to...

ARISTOCRATS
Precisely!

CHE
...our heroine's style

ARISTOCRATS
We're glad you noticed

CHE
The shooting sticks of the upper class

ARISTOCRATS
Give her an inch...

CHE
Aren't supporting a single ass
That would rise for the girl

ARISTOCRATS
...she'll take a mile

Such a shame she wandered into our enclosure
How unfortunate this person has forced us to be blunt
No, we wouldn't mind seeing her at Harrod's
But behind the jewelry counter--not in front
CHE
Could there be in our fighting corps
A lack of enthusiasm for...

ARMY
Exactly!

CHE
...Peron's latest flame?

ARMY
You said it brother

CHE
Should you wish to cause great distress
In the tidiest officer's mess
Just mention her name

ARMY
That isn't funny!


Peron is a fool, breaking every taboo
Installing the girl in the army H.Q.
And she's an actress! The last straw
Her only good parts are between her thighs
She should stare at the ceiling, not reach for the skies
Or she could be his last whore
The evidence suggests
She has other interests
If it's her who's using him
He's exceptionally dim
Bitch! Dangerous Jade!

ARISTOCRATS
We have allowed ourselves to slip
We have completely lost our grip
We have declined to an all-time low
Tarts have become the set to know

EVA (on the air)
I'm only a radio star with just one weekly show
But speaking as one of the people I want you to know
We are tired of the decline of
Argentina with no sign of
A government able to give us the things we deserve


ARMY
It's no crime for officers to do as they please
As long as they're discreet and keep clear of disease
We ignore, we disregard
But once they allow a bit on the side
To move to the center where she's not qualified
We are forced be on our guard
She should get into her head
She should not get out of bed
She should know that she's not paid
To be loud but to be laid
Slut! Dangerous Jade!

(EVA, the glamorous movie star, enters, flanked by HEAVIES).

CHE (in the guise of a reporter)
This has really been your year Miss Duarte
Tell us where you go from here Miss Duarte
Which are the roles that you yearn to play
Whom did you sleep--dine with yesterday?

EVA
Acting is limiting the lines not mine
That's no help to the Argentine

CHE
Can we assume then that you'll quit? Is this because of
your involvement with Colonel Peron?

HEAVIES
Goodnight and thank you

(They push CHE aside and EVA out).

ARMY
She won't be kept happy by her nights on the tiles
She says it's his body but she's after his files
So get back onto the street!
She should get into her head
She should not get out of bed
She should know that she's not paid
To be loud but to be laid
The evidence suggests
She has other interests
If it's her who's using him
He's exceptionally dim

ARISTOCRATS
Things have reached a pretty pass
When someone pretty lower class
Graceless and vulgar, uninspired
Can be accepted and admired

14. A NEW ARGENTINA

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!

DISC TWO



1. ON THE BALCONY OF THE CASA ROSADA

(PERON has just won a sweeping victory in the 1946 Presidential Election. This is the first public appearance by PERON and EVA since that triumph. Action takes place both inside and outside on the balcony of the Casa Rosada - the pink Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires.)

CHE
People of Argentina! Your newly elected President--
Juan Peron!

(The CROWD begins to chant "Peron! Peron!")

PERON
Argentinos! Argentinos! We are all workers now!
Fighting against our common enemies--
Poverty, social injustice, foreign domination of
our industries!
Reaching for our common goals--
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!

(The CROWD by now are beginning to chant "Evita! Evita!")



2. DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA

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)

(EVA goes back onto the balcony)



3. ON THE BALCONY OF THE CASA ROSADA 2

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 oligarchs only for
you--for all of you! And one day you will inherit these
treasures! Descamisados! When they fire those cannons,
when the crowds sing of glory, it is not just for Peron,
but for all of us! All of us!

AN ARISTOCRAT (mocking applause)
Things have reached a pretty pass
When someone pretty lower class
Can be accepted and admired-

ARISTOCRAT
But our privileged class is dead! Look who they are calling
for now!


4. HIGH FLYING, ADORED

CHE
High flying, adored, so young, the instant queen, a
Rich beautiful thing of all the talents, a cross between a
Fantasy of the bedroom and a saint
You were just a back street girl
Hustling and fighting
Scratching and biting

High flying, adored, did you believe in your wildest
moments
All this would be yours, that you'd become the lady
of them all?

Were there stars in your eyes when you crawled in
at night
From the bars, from the sidewalks
From the gutter theatrical?
Don't look down, it's a long, long way to fall

High flying, adored, what happens now, where do you
go from here?
For someone on top of the world, the view is not exactly
clear
A shame you did it all at twenty-six
There are no mysteries now
Nothing can thrill you
No-one fulfill you

High flying, adored, I hope you come to terms with
boredom
So famous, so easily, so soon, is not the wisest thing
to be

You won't care if they love you, it's been done before
You'll despair if they hate you
You'll be drained of all energy
All the young who've made it would agree

EVA
High flying, adored, that's good to hear, but unimportant
My story's quite usual, local girl makes good,
weds famous man

I was slap in the right place at the perfect time
Filled a gap--I was lucky
But one thing I'll say for me
No-one else can fill it like I can