E                             A/E
Oh what a circus, oh what a show
                      B7
Argentina has gone to town
                                    E
Over the death of an actress called Eva Peron
               C#m
We've all gone crazy
                      F#7
Mourning all day and mourning all night
                              B   C#m    F#7    B7
Falling over ourselves to get all of the misery right

E                              A/E
Oh what an exit, that's how to go
                                   B7
When they're ringing your curtain down
                         E
Demand to be buried like Eva Peron
             C#m
It's quite a sunset
                            F#7
And good for the country in a roundabout way
                             B   C#m         F#7      B7
We've made the front page of all the world's papers today

      E
But who is this Santa Evita?
Why all this howling, hysterical sorrow?
             B                  C#m
What kind of goddess has lived among us?
            G#m             A7+/9
How will we ever get by without her?

E                                  A/E
She had her moments, she had some style
                                B7
The best show in town was the crowd
                                 E
Outside the Casa Rosada crying, "Eva Peron"
               C#m
But that's all gone now
                              F#7
As soon as the smoke from the funeral clears
                        B7   C#m     F#7         B7
We're all gonna see and how, she did nothing for years

E                         A/E
Salve regina mater misericordiae
                     B7
Vita dulcedo et spes nostra
               E
Salve salve regina
         C#m                F#7
Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva
                   B7     C#m
Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes
  F#7       B7
O clemens o pia

     E
You let down your people Evita
You were supposed to have been immortal
                 B                  C#m
That's all they wanted, not much to ask for
           G#m                 A7+/9
But in the end you could not deliver

A                        D
Sing you fools, but you got it wrong
   A                            D
Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long
       G        D         F         C
Your queen is dead, your king is through
    Eb                       Bb
And she's not coming back to you

A                     D
Show business kept us all alive
A                  D
Since seventeen October 1945
          G       D            F            C
But the star has gone, the glamour's worn thin
Eb                                          Bb
That's a pretty bad state for a state to be in

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

A                        D
Sing you fools, but you got it wrong
   A                            D
Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long
       G        D         G         D
Your queen is dead, your king is through
    G                         D
And she's not coming back to you

C#                       F#
Salve regina mater misericordiae
                     G#7
Vita dulcedo et spes nostra
              C#
Salve salve regina Peron
         A#m                Eb7
Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva
                   C#        Eb7
Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes
            G#7
O clemens o pia

C#
Don't cry for me Argentina

           F#          C#
For I am ordinary, unimportant
        G#                 Bbm
And undeserving of such attention
          Fm                      F#
Unless we all are, I think we all are
             C#7+              F#7+
So share my glory, so share my coffin
             C#7+              F#7+
So share my glory, so share my coffin
                 F#7+
It's our funeral too