ANDRE: Your public needs you! FIRMIN: We need you, too! CARLOTTA: Would you not rather have your precious little ingenue' ANDRE/FIRMIN:

Signora, no! The world wants ^Cyou! Prima donna, first lady of the stage! Your devotees are on their ^Amknees to im-^Gplore you!

ANDRE:

^DmCan you bow ^Gout when ^Fthey're ^Emshouting your ^Amname' FIRMIN: ^FThink of how they ^C/Eall a-^Bb7dore y^Gou!

BOTH:

^CPrima donna, enchant us once again! ANDRE: Think of your muse

FIRMIN:

And of the ^C7queues round the ^Ftheatre! BOTH WITH PIANGI: ^DmCan you de-^Gny us ^Fthe ^Em7tri-umph in ^Amstore' Sing, ^Dmprima ^G7donna, once ^C7more!

RAOUL:

^C7Chris-tine spoke of an ^Fangel... CARLOTTA: ^FPrima donna, your so-ong shall live again

(ANDRE/FIRMIN:

^FThink of your public!) CARLOTTA: You took a ^Fsnub but there's a ^Dmpublic who ^Cneeds you! [GIRY: ^DmWe have ^Cheard the voice of the angel]

(ANDRE/FIRMIN:

^CThose who hear your voice liken you to an ^Gmangel!) CARLOTTA: ^GmThink of their ^Ccry of un-^Am7dying sup-^Dmport!

(ANDRE:

We get our ^Bbopera FIRMIN: She gets her ^F/Alimelight!)

CARLOTTA:

^BbFollow where the ^F/Alime-light ^Eb7leads ^C7you! (ANDRE/FIRMIN: ^C7Leading ladies are a ^Ftrial!)

CARLOTTA:

^FPrima donna, your song shall never die! (PIANGI: ^FWhen she sings we see heaven)

CARLOTTA:

You'll sing a-^F7gain, and to unending o-^Bbvation! (RAOUL: ^F7Orders! Warnings! ^BbLunatic demands!)

[ANDRE/FIRMIN:

^F7Tears... Oaths... ^BbLunatic demands are regular oc-^Gm7currences!] CARLOTTA: ^GmThink how you'll ^Cshine in ^Bbthat ^Amfinal en-^Dmcore! Sing, ^Gmprima ^C7donna, once ^Fmmore!

RAOUL:

^GmSurely, for her sake... (ANDRE/FIRMIN: Surely there'll be ^Gmfurther scenes - ^C7worse than this!)

[RAOUL:

...I must ^Fmsee these demands are re^Bbjected!]

ANDRE/FIRMIN:

^BbWho'd believe a diva happy to relieve a chorus girl, Who's gone and slept with her pat-^Fron' ^BbRaoul and his soubrette, entwined in love's duet! Al-^F7though he may demur, he must have been with her!

(CARLOTTA

O, ^Bbfortunata! ^F7Non ancor Abbando^Cmnata!)

ANDRE/FIRMIN:

You'd ^Cmnever get away with ^F7all this in a play, But ^Dm7if it's loudly sung and ^Gmin a foreign tongue, It's ^Ebjust the sort of story ^Bb/Daudiences adore, in ^Abfact, a perfect ^Fopera!

GIRY/MEG:

For (But) if his curse is on this ^Bbopera... COMPANY: ^BbPrima donna, the world is at your feet! A nation waits, and how it ^Bb7hates to be ^Ebcheated!

(song slows down)

^CmLight up that ^Fstage with ^Ebthat ^Dmage-old rap-^Cmport! (Strum rapidly and VERY loudly) F NC Sing, prima donna...

(COMPANY takes a HUGE gulp of air, watch out for Carlotta's very high D notes.) Bb Edim B Edim NC ONCE MORE! (Curtain closes) Bb Bb/D Bb/F... Intro to another song.

Andrew Lloyd Webber - Prima donna