Lyrics The Lady's Got Potential - Andrew Lloyd Webber, Colm Wilkinson

The Lady's Got Potential

Che
The lady’s got potential, she ought to go far
She always knows exactly who her best friends are
The greatest social climber since Cinderella
But Eva’s not the only one who’s getting the breaks;
I’m a research chemist who’s got what it takes
And my insecticide’s gonna be a bestseller
Yeah, just one blast and the insects fall like flies
Kapow!
Die!
They don’t have a chance!
In the fly-killing world it’s a major advance!
In my world it’ll mean finance:
I’m shaping up successful Capitalist-wise!
But getting back to Eva, she just saw those guys
As steps on the ladder to the ultimate prize
And he goes by the name of Colonel Peron
He began his career in the army overseas
Teaching all the other soldiers all he knew about skis
When others took a tumble he would always stay on
Yeah, sure Peron could ski, but who needs a snowman?
He said:
Peron
Great men don’t grow on trees!
I’m one, I ain’t gonna freeze!
Dictators Don’t grow on skis!
Che
Peron would be no number two to no man!
He married in the meantime but the poor girl died
Imagine if she hadn’t — we’d have been denied
The heart-warming, tear-jerking rise to fame of Eva
Now my insecticide contains no dangerous drugs
It can’t harm humans, but it’s curtains for bugs
If you’ve got six legs, I ain’t doin' you no favor
Yeah, just one blast and the insects fall like flies!
Kapow!
Die!
They don’t have a chance!
In the fly-killing world it’s a major advance!
In my world it’ll mean finance:
I’m shaping up successful Capitalist-wise!
Yeah, just one blast and the insects fall like flies!
Kapow!
Die!
They don’t have a chance!
In the fly-killing world it’s a major advance!
In my world it’ll mean finance:
I’m shaping up successful Capitalist-wise!
Oh yes, Peron, he joined a faction called the G.O.U
(G — Government, O — Order, U — Unity)
They were the gang behind the military coup
So Peron was a heartbeat away from control of the nation
They thought that Hitler had the war as good as won;
They were slightly to the right of Atilla the Hun
And Eva set her sights on Peron and his situation
And Eva set her sights on Peron and his situation
Peron
The G.O.U.
is a three pronged operation:
Government, unopposed and allied
With Order ruthlessly appplied
And Unity: those not on our side
Are subject to the process of elimination