Requiem For Evita chords by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim rice
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Verse 1
(D major) (G major) (G minor) (Daug) (D major) (D minor) (D major) ["Pomp Circumstance March No. 1"] (D minor)
(D major) (Daug) (D minor) (D major) (G major) (D major)
(Daug) (G minor) (Daug) (G minor) (D major) (G major)
(G minor) (Daug) (D major) (D minor) (A major) (E flat major) (D major) (Daug)
(B flat major) (D major) (D minor) (D major) (D minor) (D major) (C minor)
(A flat major) (D major)
Donna et vita, (D minor) (D major) requiem aeternum
Donna et vita, (D minor) (G minor) re quiem (D major) et vita
Requiem (C minor) (D major) et vita, et (A major) vita, (C minor) (D major) et vita, et vita,
et vita. (G minor) (C minor) (G minor)
(E flat major) (F major) (C minor)
(G minor) (E flat major) (B flat major)
(B flat minor) (E flat major) (B flat minor) (G flat major)
(G minor)
(C minor) (G minor) (C minor)
Interlude 1
(G minor) (A major) (C sharp major) (A major) (C sharpdim)
(Gdim) (E flat major) (C sharp major) (A major) (E flat major) (C sharp major)
(A major) (C sharp major) (E flat major)
(E major) And it's
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Verse 2
on!
And (C sharp major) it's on!
And it's on!
And (C minor) it's on! (E flat major) (G minor) (D major)
Oh, what a circus, oh, what a show (G major)
Argentina has gone to (A major) town
Over the death of an actress
called Ava (D major) Peron.
We've all gone crazy, (B minor)
Mourning all day and
mourn (E major) ing all night,
Falling over ourselves to get (A major) all
of (E major) the misery (A major) right. (D major)
What an exit, that's how to (G major) go,
When they're ringing your curtain down.
(A major) Demand to be (D flatdim)
buried like (A major) Ava (D major) Peron
It's quite a sun (B minor) set
And good for the coun (G major) try in
(E major) a roundabout way
We've made the front (D major) page of (A major) all
The (E major) world's papers today (A major)
But who (D major) is this Santa Evita?
Why all this howl (G major) ing, (D major) hysterical sorrow?
What kind (A major) of goddess has
lived among (B minor) us?
How will we ever (D major) get by (G major) without her?
(D major) She had her moments, she had some style (G major)
The best show in town was the crowd
(A major) Outside the Casa (D major) Rosada, (A major)
crying (D major) Eva Perón
But that's all (B minor) gone now
As soon as the smoke
from the (E major) funeral clears
We're (D major) all (E major) gonna see (A major)
How?
(E major) She did nothing for (A major) years! (D major) (G major)
(A major)
(D major) (B minor)
(E major) (D major) (A major) (E major)
(A major)
You let (D major) down your people, (G major) (D major) Evita
You were supposed to have
been immortal
That's all they (A major) wanted,
not much to (B minor) ask for
But in the (D major) end you could not de (G major) liver
Sing you fools, but you got it wrong
Enjoy your prayers because
you (F major) haven't got (G major) long
The queen is dead, (C major) your (E flat major) king is through
(B flat major) She's (D flat major) not coming back to (A flat major) you
The (G major) show business kept us all alive
Since 17 October 1945
But the (F major) star is (C major) gone,
the (E flat major) glamour's won't (B flat major) send
That's (C sharp major) a pretty bad state
for a (A flat major) state to be in
Instead (C sharp major) of government,
we had our stage
Instead (G sharpsus4) of ideas, (C sharp major)
a pyramid on its range
In (B major) stead of help, we were (E major) given a (B major) crowd
She (E major) didn't say much, but she said it loud (B major)
And (B minor) who am I, (A major) who (G major) dares to keep (A major)
His (E flat major) head held high (B major) while millions weep
Why (C sharp major) the ex (G major) ception (A flat major) to the rule, (E major)
(C sharp major) A fortun (G major) ist, straight -out fool,
(E major) Or (B flat major) just a man (F major) who (B flat major) grew in sore,
(F major) From (E flat major) seventeen (D minor) to (C minor) twenty -four,
(D major) This (F major) country bled, (G major) crucified,
(E major) She's (B flat major) not the only (C major) one (D major) who's died!
(F major) Sing, you fools, but you got it wrong,
Enjoy your prayers, because
you haven't got long,
(E flat major) Queen is dead, your king is through,
She's not coming back to (B flat major) you! (B major)
Salve Regina, Mater Misericor (E major) (B major) di ae, (E major)
Vita dulcedo estes nostra. (B major)
(F sharp major) Salve, (B major) (E major) salve, (A major) (E major) regina Peron, (B major)
te amamus (E major) eisul est fili Eva, (C sharp major)
a te suspiramus gementes, (F sharp major)
et plentes (C sharp major) of clement (F sharp major) s of the earth. (E major)
Interlude 2
(B major) (E major)
(F sharp major)
(B major) (E major) (G sharp minor) (B major)
(C sharp major) (B major) (C sharp major) (F sharp major) (C sharp major)
(F sharp major)
Verse 3
Don't (B major) cry for me,
for I am (E major) ordinary, (B major) unimportant,
and undeserving (F sharp major) of
such atten (G sharp minor) tion.
Unless we (B major) all are, I think we all are. (E major)
(B major) Ride on my train, oh my people,
And when it's your turn to die,
you'll remember
They fired those (F sharp major) cannons,
sang lament (E major) ation (G sharp minor) s
Not just for (B major) Eva, for Argentin (E major) a (B major)
(E major) So share my glory, (B major) so share my (E major) coffin,
So share my (B major) glory, so share my (E major) coffin.
It's our funeral too.
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