Don't Cry for Me, Argentina

This is a design for a British flag to replace the Union Jack. It was especially popular during the Falkland Islands War.

“A world without Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musicals would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. ”

~ Margaret Thatcher on World Peace

The song Don't Cry for Me, Argentina has been known to make large, hairy British men weep. Taken to heart by the British public during the Falkland Islands War, it was voted second as the song most likely to replace the English national anthem, God Save the Queen in an online poll conducted by The Sun newspaper (the first is the theme from Balamory but we're not taking that very seriously because everyone knows Balamory is in Scotland). This is also Argentina's National Anthem.

Credits

Don't Cry for Me, Argentina is the most famous song from the Evita song book, penned by musical maestros Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. The pair were inspired to write the score after hearing Tim Brooke Taylor of The Goodies sing the powerful and memorable ditty Don't Cry for Me, Marge and Tina.

• Worst performance: Sarah Brightman
• Longest performance: Sarah Brightman
• Highest performance: Sarah Brightman
• Performance most involving tits: Madonna

Lyrics

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

This reference map shows which countries should (or should not) cry for me.

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 seems to the world they were all I desired

They are illusions

They're 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

Don't cry for me Argentina

As you can see the lyrics are extraordinarily dull, but that comes as no surprise to fans of lyricist Tim Rice, most of whom are accountants.

See also

• Argentina
• A karaoke version of the famous song