On This Night of a Thousand Stars / Eva and Magaldi / Eva Beware of the City

[MAGALDI]
On this night of a thousand stars
Let me take you to heaven's door
Where the music of love's guitars
Plays forevermore

In the glow of those twinkling lights
We shall love through eternity
On this night in a million nights
Fly away with me

I never dreamed that a kiss
Could be as sweet as this
But now I know that it can
I used to wander alone
Without a love of my own
I was a desperate man

But all my grief disappeared
And all the sorrow I feared
Wasn't there anymore
On that magical day
When you first came my way, mi amor

On this night
On this night
On this night of a thousand stars
Lеt me take you to heavеn's door
Where the music of love's guitar
Plays for evermore!

[EVA]
It must be a dream
Augustin Magaldi
The most famous man to visit Junín

[MAGALDI]
The audience seem
Extremely heavy going—

[CHE]
Listen chum face the fact
They don't like your act

[MAGALDI]
But this is the sticks!
If this were Buenos Aires
I'd have that town at my feet
I never ever meet members of the public
They tear me apart

[CHE]
I understand their feelings

[EVA]
I wanna be a part of BA
Buenos Aires—Big Apple!

[EVA & FRIENDS]
I wanna be a part of BA
Buenos Aires—Big Apple!

[CHE]
Just listen to that!
They're onto you Magaldi
I'd get out while you can

[EVA]
It's happened at last
I'm starting to get started
I'm moving out with my man

[MAGALDI]
Now Eva, don't get carried away

[EVA]
Monotony past
Suburbia departed
Who could ever be fond of the back of beyond?

[MAGALDI]
Don't hear words that I didn't say

[FRIENDS]
What's that? You'd desert the girl you love?

[MAGALDI]
The girl I love? Who?

[FRIENDS]
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

[EVA]
I wanna be a part of BA
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?

[CHE]
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

[MAGALDI]
The city can be paradise for those who have the cash
The class and the connection—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—

[EVA]
Screw the middle classes
I will never accept them
And they will never deny me anything again
My father's other family were middle class
And we were kept out of sight—hidden from view at his funeral!
If these are the people of Buenos Aires
I welcome the chance to shine in their city
And to trample their rotten values into the ground

[CHE]
Do all your one night stands give you this trouble?

[MAGALDI]
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

[EVA]
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 BA
Buenos Aires—Big Apple!

[EVA & FRIENDS]
I wanna be a part of BA
Buenos Aires—Big Apple!

[MAGALDI]
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

[EVA]
All you've done to me
Was that a young girl's fantasy?
I played your city games alright, 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 BA
Buenos Aires—Big Apple!

[EVA & FRIENDS]
I'm gonna be a part of BA
Buenos Aires—Big Apple!

[MAGALDI]
Eva, beware your ambition
It's hungry and cold—can't be controlled, will run wild
This in a man is a 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!