Oh What a Circus

Tom : Fm
​ 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

[Refrão]
​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

[Próxima Parte]
​ 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

[Refrão] (repetir)
[Próxima Parte]
​ 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