Oh What A Circus
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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
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The first identified chord is E. You can transpose without leaving the page.
Can I play it on guitar or keyboard?
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