DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA

"Don't Cry for Me Argentina" is the best-known song from the 1978 musical Evita with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice.

Sung by the title character Eva Peron.It concentrates on the life of Argentine political leader Eva Perón, the second wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón. The story follows Evita's early life, rise to power, charity work, and eventual death.

Perón is elected President in a sweeping victory in 1946. He stands "On The Balcony of the Casa Rosada" addressing his descamisados (shirtless ones). Eva speaks from the balcony of the Presidential palace to her adoring supporters ("Don't Cry for Me Argentina"

Perón's generals finally get sick of Eva's meddling, and Perón reveals that though "She is a Diamond", Eva can no longer keep doing her work due to her cancer. The generals remind Perón that the only reason he is still in power is because of his wife's influence on the masses. Meanwhile, Eva is determined to run for vice president, much to Perón's fear that they would be overtaken by the military if she runs and that Eva's health is too delicate for any stressful work, but Eva insists she can continue on, despite her failing health ("Dice Are Rolling/Eva's Sonnet").

Realizing she is close to death, Eva renounces her pursuit of the vice presidency and swears her eternal love to the people of Argentina ("Eva's Final Broadcast"). Eva's achievements flash before her eyes before she dies ("Montage"), and she asks for forgiveness, contemplating her choice of fame instead of long life and raising children ("Lament"). Eva dies, and embalmers preserve her body forever

Julie Covington sang “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” for the original 1976 studio release. The single reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1977 for a week, selling almost a million copies in the United Kingdom.[1]
(voice of Julie Covington - 1976)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX0OJ7Y6fa4&feature=fvsr

(recent version 2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4oPWINVVEw
(sung by Susan Erans - Andre Rieu - Conductor

Don't cry for me Argentina
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It won't be easy, you'll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
That I still need your love after all that I've done

You won't believe me
All you will see is a girl you once knew
Although she's dressed up to the nines
At sixes and sevens with you

I had to let it happen, I had to change
Couldn't stay all my life down at heel
Looking out of the window, staying out of the sun

So I chose freedom
Running around, trying everything new
But nothing impressed me at all
I never expected it to

[Chorus:]

Don't cry for me Argentina
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance

And as for fortune, and as for fame
I never invited them in
Though it seemed to the world they were all I desired

They are illusions
They are not the solutions they promised to be
The answer was here all the time
I love you and hope you love me

Don't cry for me Argentina

[chorus]

Have I said too much?
There's nothing more I can think of to say to you.
But all you have to do is look at me to know
That every word is true