Oh What A Circus

	  		Intro

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