Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
Difficulty: Novice
Verse:
C majorC F/CF/C
Oh what a circus, oh what a show
Oh what an exit, that's how to go
G/C
Argentina has gone to town
When they're ringing your curtain down
C majorC
Over the death of an actress called Eva Peron
Demand to be buried like Eva Peron
A minorAm
We've all gone crazy
It's quite a sunset
D MajorD
Mourning all day and mourning all night
And good for the country in a roundabout way
D/C G/BG/B D MajorD G+G
Falling over ourselves to get all of the misery right. (REPEAT)
We've made the front page of all the world's papers today
C majorC
But who is this Santa Evita?
Why all this howling, hysterical sorrow?
G+G A minorAm
What kind of goddess has lived among us?
C majorC FF
How will we ever get by without her?
C majorC FF
She had her moments, she had some style
G+G
The best show in town was the crowd
C majorC
Outside the casa rosada crying, "Eva Peron”
A minorAm
But that's all gone now
D MajorD
As soon as the smoke from the funeral clears
D/C B minorBm D MajorD G+G
We're all gonna see and how, she did nothing for years
Chorus:
C majorC FF
Salve regina mater misericordiae
G+G
Vita dulcedo et spes nostra
C majorC
Salve salve regina
A minorAm D MajorD
Ad te clamamus exules filii eva
C majorC A minorAm
Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes
D MajorD G+G
O clemens o pia
Verse 2:
C majorC
You let down your people Evita
You were supposed to have been immortal
G+G A minorAm
That's all they wanted, not much to ask for
C majorC FF F7F7
But in the end you could not deliver
(FULL CAST, No instrumentation, voices only/CHORUS 2)
N.C.
Salve regina mater misericordiae
Vita dulcedo et spes nostra
Salve salve regina peron
N.C.
Ad te clamamus exules filii eva
Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes
O clemens o pia
EVA/EVITA:
C majorC
Don't cry for me Argentina
For I am ordinary, unimportant
G+G A minorAm
And undeserving of such attention
C majorC FF
Unless we all are, I think we all are
C majorC FF
So share my glory, so share my coffin
C majorC FF
So share my glory, so share my coffin