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Don't Cry for Me, Argentina

written and composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice,
performed by Julie Covington.

[Eva:]
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

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

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

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

Sheet Music 曲譜

Notes 簡介

Julie Covington recorded Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina in 1976. Click to enlarge (click again to close)
Julie Covington 於 1976 年錄製《Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina》。 點擊放大(再擊關閉)
“Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina” was written for the 1976 concept album "Evita", later performed as part of a theatre musical in 1978 of the same name. The song was written and composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice while they were researching the life of Argentine leader Eva Perón.

After the song was composed, Lloyd Webber and Rice were struggling to find a suitable musical actress for the songs and the title role. They were watching the British musical television show when Julie Covington, who played an aspiring rock musician, got their attention. Covington was extremely intrigued by their proposal, considering Eva Perón to be a non-commercial idea for a musical. Nevertheless, she thought that the songs were great compositions and signed on for recording them.

Upon its release in 1976, the song went to number one in the UK, and went on to win the songwriting duo an Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.

The song became something of an anthem when it was performed by Madonna in the 1996 musical film Evita. Madonna famously campaigned for the role by sending the director a four page letter about why she should have the role.

Eva Perón

Eva Perón, first lady of Argentina from 1946 to 1952. Click to enlarge (click again to close)
Eva Perón，1946 年至 1952 年阿根廷第一夫人。 點擊放大(再擊關閉)
Eva Perón, known as "Evita," served as the First Lady of Argentina from June 1946 until her death on 26 July 1952.

Chronicling the life and times of Argentina’s favourite daughter, the musical "Evita" was a dramatisation of the real-life events that happened in Eva Perón’s short but impactful life.

Eva Perón was born María Eva Duarte in a rural village in Argentina in 1919. She moved to Buenos Aires in 1934, aged 15, to pursue an acting career and eventually began performing steadily in radio parts. Eva attracted the attention of a rising star of the new government, Colonel Juan Perón, and the two married in 1945. When Perón became President in 1946, Eva Perón became First Lady and a prominent political figure.

She established the Eva Perón Foundation, a charitable organization that provided significant social support to the Argentinian population, especially the poor and marginalized. Eva became a central figure in the Peronist movement, a populist political ideology that influenced Argentine society. She was revered by the Argentine public because of how she championed workers’ rights and the rights of the poor, and also of women.

She died tragically of cancer at the young age of 33. The government of Juan Perón was overthrown in 1955, and her embalmed body went on a mysterious odyssey for a number of years until it was returned to Argentina, where it now rests in the famous Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires.

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