Your public needs you!
We need you, too!
Would you not rather have your precious little ingenue?
Signora, no!
the world wants you!
Prima donna
first lady of the stage!
Your devotees
are on their knees to implore you !
Can you bow out when they're shouting your name?
Think of how they all adore you!
Prima donna,
Enchant us once again!
Think of your muse . . .
And of the queues round the theatre!
Can you deny us the triumph in store?
Sing, prima donna, once more!
Prima donna
Your song shall live again!
You took a snub
But there's a public who needs you!
Think of their cry of undying support !
Follow where the limelight leads you!
Prima donna,
Your song shall never die!
You'll sing again,and to unending ovation!
Think how you'll shinein that final encore!
Sing, prima donna,once more!
Who'd believe a diva
happy to relieve a chorus girl,
who's gone and slept with the patron?
Raoul and the soubrette,
entwined in love's duet!
Although he may demur,
he must have been with her!
You'd never get away
with all this in a play,
but if it's lovely song
and in a foreign tongue
it's just the sort of story
audiences adore,
in fact a perfect opera!
Prima donna
the world is at your feet!
A nation waits,
and how it hates to be cheated!
Light up the stage
with that age old rapport!
Sing, prima donna,
Once more!