Andrew Lloyd Webber — Prima Donna Chords

ANDRE:
Your public needs you!

FIRMIN: 
We need you, too!

CARLOTTA: 
Would you not rather have your precious little ingenue?

ANDRE/FIRMIN:
                             C 
Signora, no! The world wants you! 

Prima donna, first lady of the stage!
                           Am          G
Your devotees are on their knees to im—plore you!

ANDRE: 
Dm          G        F       Em            Am
Can you bow out when they're shouting your name?

FIRMIN: 
F                 C/E   Bb7   G
Think of how they all a—dore you!

BOTH:
C 
Prima donna, enchant us once again!

ANDRE:             
Think of your muse

FIRMIN:
           C7               F 
And of the queues round the theatre!

BOTH WITH PIANGI: 
Dm         G     F   Em7         Am
Can you de—ny us the tri—umph in store?
      Dm    G7          C7  
Sing, prima donna, once more! 

RAOUL:
C7                     F 
Chris—tine spoke of an angel...

CARLOTTA: 
F                          
Prima donna, your so—ong shall live again


(ANDRE/FIRMIN:
F
Think of your public!)
CARLOTTA:
           F                  Dm         C     
You took a snub but there's a public who needs you!
[GIRY: 
Dm      C                 
We have heard the voice of the angel]

(ANDRE/FIRMIN:
C                                         Gm
Those who hear your voice liken you to an angel!)

CARLOTTA:
Gm             C         Am7       Dm 
Think of their cry of un—dying sup—port!

(ANDRE: 
           Bb              
We get our opera

FIRMIN:
             F/A  
She gets her limelight!)

CARLOTTA:
Bb               F/A        Eb7   C7
Follow where the lime—light leads you!

(ANDRE/FIRMIN: 
C7                   F
Leading ladies are a trial!)

CARLOTTA: 
F
Prima donna, your song shall never die!

(PIANGI: 
F
When she sings we see heaven)

CARLOTTA: 
              F7                      Bb
You'll sing a—gain, and to unending o—vation!

(RAOUL: 
F7                Bb
Orders! Warnings! Lunatic demands!)

[ANDRE/FIRMIN: 
F7                Bb                             Gm7                       
Tears... Oaths... Lunatic demands are regular oc—currences!]

CARLOTTA: 
Gm               C        Bb   Am       Dm   
Think how you'll shine in that final en—core!
      Gm    C7          Fm  
Sing, prima donna, once more!

RAOUL:
Gm 
Surely, for her sake...

(ANDRE/FIRMIN:
                   Gm               C7 
Surely there'll be further scenes — worse than this!)

[RAOUL:
          Fm                      Bb  
...I must see these demands are rejected!]


ANDRE/FIRMIN: 
Bb              
Who'd believe a diva happy to relieve a chorus girl,
                                  F
Who's gone and slept with her pat—ron?
Bb                                    
Raoul and his soubrette, entwined in love's duet!
   F7                       
Al—though he may demur, he must have been with her!

(CARLOTTA 
   Bb    
O, fortunata! 
F7
Non ancor 
       Cm  
Abbandonata!)

ANDRE/FIRMIN:
      Cm                  F7
You'd never get away with all this in a play,
    Dm7                     Gm                  
But if it's loudly sung and in a foreign tongue,
     Eb                     Bb/D                Ab              F
It's just the sort of story audiences adore, in fact, a perfect opera!

GIRY/MEG:                       
                                  Bb
For (But) if his curse is on this opera...

COMPANY:  
Bb
Prima donna, the world is at your feet!
                           Bb7         Eb
A nation waits, and how it hates to be cheated!

(song slows down)
Cm            F          Eb   Dm          Cm
Light up that stage with that age—old rap—port!
(Strum rapidly and VERY loudly)
      F         NC       
Sing, prima donna... 

(COMPANY takes a HUGE gulp of air, watch out for Carlotta's very high D notes.)
     Bb   Edim B Edim NC   
ONCE MORE!

(Curtain closes)
Bb Bb/D Bb/F...

Intro to another song.