EVITA - A New Argentina Chords

_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [E] _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ Dice are rolling, the knives are [B] out.
Would-be presidents [Am] are all around.
I don't say they mean harm, but they'd each give [B] an arm
to see us six feet [F#]
underground.
[G] _ _ [B] _ [Em] It doesn't matter what those morons say.
[D] Our nation's leaders [G] are a feeble crew.
[B] There's only twenty of [Em] them anyway.
[C] _ [D] What is twenty?
Extra [A] millions who are looking [B] to you.
[C] _
_ _ [B] All you have to [Em] do is sit and wait,
[D] keeping out of [G] everybody's way.
[B] _
We'll_
You'll be [Em] handed power on a plate
[A] when the ones who [G] matter have their say.
[Am] And with chaos [C] installed,
_ [A#] you can [F] reluctantly [E] agree to be [F] called.
[D] There again we could be foolish [F] not to quit while we're ahead.
[C] For distance lends enchantment, [D] and that is why
_ all exiles are distinguished.
[F] More important, they're not dead.
[C] I could find job satisfaction [D] in [Bm] Paraguay.
This is crazy, defeatist talk.
Why commit [E] political suicide?
There's no roots, there's no call for any action at [F#] all
when you have unions on [B] your side.
Terror, _ [D#] _ terror, terror.
_ [F#] _ _ [Em] _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ [A] A new Argentina, the kings of [Em] the masses _ untied.
[A] A new Argentina, [D] the voice of the [A] people cannot be [D] denied. _
There [E] is only one man who can lead any workers' regime. _
He lives by your problems, he shares your ideals and your dream.
It's a party!
_ [G] _ _ [B] _ _ [G] _
_ [C] _ _ How could [E] he love me?
[A] A new Argentina, the workers' mantle [Em] strong.
_ [A] A new Argentina, the voice of the people rings out loud.
[D] _ _ _ [E] Now I am a worker, I've suffered the way that you do.
_ I've been unemployed and I've starved and I've hated it too.
_ _ _ _ [G]
Salvation, [A] _ _ [G] liberation, [C] _ _
they know [E] as he said, me.
_ [A] A new Argentina, [E] a new age about [Em] to begin. _
_ [A] A new Argentina, [E] we face the world [A] together and no dissent [D] within. _
_ Nationalization of the [F] industries that the corrunders control.
[C] Participation in the [D] profits that we make.
Shorter hours, higher wages, [F] food for women,
larger goals, [C] more public spending, a bigger [D] slice of every cake.
It's annoying that we have to [F] fight elections for our cause.
[C] The inconvenience, having to [D] get a majority. _
If normal methods of [F] persuasion fail to win us applause,
[C] there are other ways of establishing [D] authority. _
We have ways of making you vote for us, [E] or at least of making you abstain.
_ _ Federalism resigned from the army and that's my aval.
_ _ And Escamizadas are those he is marching with now.
He supports you, for [G] he loves you, [A] and you _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ could he [E] love me.
_ [A] A new Argentina, [G] the chains of the masters [Em] are _ [B] tied.
[A] A new Argentina, [D] the voice of the people [Em]
can be _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ [Em] _ _
_ [F#m] _ [D] denied. _ _ _ _
There again we could be foolish [F] not to quit while we're ahead.
I [C] can see me many miles away [F#] in Actil.
_ [D] _ Sipping cocktails on a terrace, [F] making breakfast in bed.
[C] Sleeping easy, doing crosswords, it's [D] attractive.
_ [Dm] Don't think I don't think like you, I often get [Gm] those nightmares too.
They [Dm] always take some swallowing.
Sometimes it's very difficult to keep on and on if it's you that you are following.
[A#] Don't close doors, keep an escape clause, because [Gm] we might [D] lose the Big Apple.
_ But [Am] would I have done what [Gm] I did [A#] if I hadn't thought, if I hadn't known?
[C] We would take the [D] country. _
_ [E] _ _ _ [A] A new _ Argentina, the chains of the masters [E] are _ [B]
tied.
[A] A new Argentina, [D] _ the people [Em] have been denied.
_ [A] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[Em] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _