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Oh What A Circus, from the hit musical Evita. Lyrics by Tim Rice, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The original West End production was sung by David Essex and the American Broadway debut by Mandy Patinkin. This is the version from the stage shows, not the movie featuring Antonio Banderas. [Verse 1]
EOh what a circus. Oh what a sA/Ehow. Argentina has gone to towB/En Over the death of an actress called EEva Peron. We've all gone C#mcrazy Mourning all day and F#mourning all night Falling F#/Eover ourselves to get B/D#all oF#f the misery righBt
B B7 [Verse 2]
EOh what an exit, that's how to A/Ego. When they're ringing your curtain down B/EDemand to be buried like EEva Peron. It's quite a C#minsunset And good for the country in a F#roundabout way; We've F#/Emade the front pages of B/D#all tF#he world's papers todBay
B B7 [Chorus 1]
But Ewho is this Santa Evita? Why all this howling hysterical sorrow? What kind of Bgoddess has lived amC#mong us? How will we Eever get by without her?
[Verse 3]
EShe had her moments--she had some stA/Eyle The best show in town was the cB/Erowd Outside the Casa Rosada crying, EEva Peron. But that's all gC#mone now As soon as the smoke from the F#funeral clears, We're F#/Eall gonna see andB/D# how F#she did nothing for yeBars!
B B7 [Interlude]
ESalve regina mater miseriA/Ecordiae Vita dulce do et spesnB/Eostra. Salve, salve reEgina. Ad te claC#mmamus exules filii F#Eva AdF#/E te suspiramus gemenB/D#tes et F#flentes o clemens o BpiaB7
[Chorus 2]
You Elet down your people Evita. You were supposed to have been immortal. That's all they Bwanted. Not much to C#mask for; But in the Eend you could not deliver.