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On This Night of a Thousand Stars / Eva and Magaldi / Eva Beware of the City Lyrics by Mark Syers, Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin

Evita (Original Cast Recording)

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[CHE]
Now Eva Perón had every disadvantage
You need if you're gonna succeed
No money, no class, no father, no bright lights
There was nowhere she'd been at the age of fifteen
As this tango singer found out, a tango singer
Agustín Magaldi!
Who has the distinction of being the first man to be of use
To Eva Duarte
[MAGALDI]
On this night of a thousand stars
Let me take you to heaven's door
Where the music of love's guitars
Plays forevermore
In the glow of those twinkling lights
We shall love through eternity
On this night in a million nights
Fly away with me
I never dreamed that a kiss
Could be as sweet as this
Now I know that it can
I used to wander alone
Without a love of my own
I was a desperate man
But all my grief disappeared
And all the sorrow I feared
Wasn't there anymore
On that magical day
When you first came my way, mi amor
On this night
On this night
On this night of a thousand stars
Let me take you to heaven's door
Where the music of love's guitar
Plays for evermore!
[EVA]
To think that a man as famous as you are
Could love a poor little nothing like me
[MAGALDI]
The audience here are sitting on their hands
[CHE]
Listen chump, face the fact
They don't like your act
[MAGALDI]
But this is Junín
If this were Buenos Aires
I'd have that town at my feet
I never ever meet members of the public
They tear me apart
[CHE]
I understand their feelings
[EVA]
I wanna be a part of B.A.​ 
Buenos Aires, big apple
I wanna be a part of B.A.​ 
Buenos Aires, big apple
[FRIENDS]
She wants to be a part of B.A.​ 
Buenos Aires, big apple
[CHE]
Just listen to that
They're onto you, Magaldi
I'd get out while you can
[EVA]
It's happened at last
I'm starting to get started
I'm moving out with my man
[MAGALDI]
Now Eva, don't get carried away
[EVA]
Monotony passed, suburbia departed
Who could ever get kicks, in the back of the sticks?
[MAGALDI]
Don't hear words that I didn't say
[FRIENDS]
What's that? You'd desert the girl you love?
[MAGALDI]
The girl I love?
(spoken)
What are you talking about?
[FRIENDS]
She really brightened up
Your out of town engagement
She gave you all she had
She wasn't in your contract
You must be quite relieved
That no one's told the papers
So far!
[EVA]
I wanna be a part of B.A.​ 
Buenos Aires, big apple
Would I have done what I did
If I hadn't thought, if I hadn't known
We would stay together?
[CHE]
Seems to me there's no point in resisting
She's made up her mind, you've no choice
Why don't you be the man who discovered her?
You'll never be remembered for your voice
[MAGALDI]
The city can be paradise
For those who have the cash
The class and the connections
What you need to make a splash
The likes of you get swept up
In the morning with the trash
If you were rich or middle class
[EVA]
Screw the middle classes
I will never accept them
And they will never deny me anything again
My father's other family were middle class
And we were kept out of sight
Hidden from view at his funeral
If these are the people of Buenos Aires
I welcome the chance to shine in their city
[CHE]
Do all your one night stands give you this trouble?
[MAGALDI]
Eva, beware of the city
It's hungry and cold
Can't be controlled
It is mad
Those who are fools are swallowed up whole
And those who are not
Become what they should not become
Changed, in short they go bad
[EVA]
Bad is good for me
I'm bored, so clean and so ignored
I've only been predictable, respectable
Birds fly out of here
So why, oh why, oh why the hell can't I?
I only want variety, notoriety
I wanna be a part of B.A. ​
Buenos Aires, big apple
I wanna be a part of B.A.​ 
Buenos Aires, big apple
[FRIENDS]
She wants to be a part of B.A.​ 
Buenos Aires, big apple
[MAGALDI]
Five years from now, I shall come back
And finally say, "You have your way, come to town"
But you'll look at me with a foreigner's eyes
The magical city, a younger girl's city
A fantasy long since put down
[EVA]
All you've done to me—
Was that a young girl's fantasy?
I played your city games alright, didn't I?
I already know what cooks
How the dirty city feels and looks
I tasted it last night, didn't I?
I'm gonna be a part of B.A.​ 
Buenos Aires, big apple
I'm gonna be a part of B.A.​ 
Buenos Aires, big apple
[FRIENDS]
She's gonna be a part of B.A.​ 
Buenos Aires, big apple
[MAGALDI]
Eva, beware your ambition
It's hungry and cold
Can't be controlled
Will run wild
This in a man is a danger enough
But you are a woman
Not even a woman
Not very much more than a child
And whatever you say
I'll not steal you away
Credits
Mark Syers

Mark Syers

Patti LuPone

Patti LuPone

Mandy Patinkin

Mandy Patinkin

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