Eva and Magaldi / Eva Beware of the City

To think that a man as famous as you are

Could love a poor little nothing like me

I wanna be a part of B.A., Buenos Aires, Big Apple

She wants to be a part of B.A., Buenos Aires, Big Apple

Just listen to that!

They're on to you, Magaldi

I'd get out while you can

It's happened at last

I'm starting to get started

I'm moving out with my man

Now, Eva, don't get carried away

Monotony past

Suburbia departed

Who could ever be fond of the back of beyond?

Don't hear words that I didn't say

What's that?

You'd desert the girl you love?

The girl I love?

Huh!

What are you talking about?

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!

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?

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

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—

Screw the middle classes!

I will never accept them!

My father's other family were middle class

And we were kept out of sight

Hidden from view at his funeral

Do all your one-night stands give you this trouble?

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

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 of society

I wanna be a part of B.A., Buenos Aires, Big Apple

She wants to be a part of B.A., Buenos Aires, Big Apple

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

All you've done to me!

Was that a young girl's fantasy

I played your city games all right

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

She's gonna be a part of B.A., Buenos Aires, Big Apple

Eva, beware your ambition

It's hungry and cold

Can't be controlled

Will run wild

This in a man is 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