Words and Music By
Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty
Vladimir:
YOU were born in a palace by the sea.
Anya:
A palace by the sea. Could it be?
Vladimir:
Yes, that's right.
You rode horseback when you were only three.
Anya:
Horseback riding? Me?
Vladimir:
And the horse
Dimitri:
He was white!
Vladimir:
YOU made faces and terrorized the cook!
Dimitri:
Threw him in the brook!
Anya:
Was I wild?
Dimitri:
Wrote the book!
Vladimir:
But you'd behave when your father gave that look!
Dimitri:
Imagine how it was!
Vladimir:
Your long-forgotten past!
Vladimir, Dimitri:
We've lots and lots to teach you and the time is going fast!
Anya:
All right. I'm ready!
Vladimir:
Now, shoulders back and stand up tall
Dimitri:
And do not walk, but try to float.
Anya:
I feel a little foolish. Am I floating?
Vladimir:
Like a little boat!
Dimitri:
YOU give a bow.
Anya:
What happens now?
Vladimir:
Your hand receives a kiss!
Vladimir, Dimitri:
Most of all, remember this
Vladimir:
If I can learn to do it, you can learn to do it.
Dimitri:
Something in you knows it--
Vladimir, Dimitri:
There's nothing to it!
Vladimir:
Follow in my footsteps, shoe by shoe!
Vladimir, Dimitri:
YOU can learn to do it too!
Vladimir:
Now, elbows in and sit up straight
Dimitri:
And never slurp the stroganoff.
Anya:
I never cared for stroganoff
Vladimir:
She said that like a Romanov!
Dimitri:
The Samovar.
Vladimir:
The caviar.
Anya:
Dessert and then goodnight!
Vladimir, Dimitri:
Not until you get this right!
Vladimir:
If I can learn to do it
Dimitri:
If he can learn to do it
Vladimir:
YOU can learn to do it!
Dimitri:
You can learn to do it
Vladimir:
Pull yourself together
Vladimir, Dimitri:
And you'll pull through it!
Vladimir:
Tell yourself it's easy
Vladimir, Dimitri:
And it's true! You can learn to do it too!
Vladimir:
Next, you must memorize the names of the royalty.
Now here we have Kropotkin
Dimitri:
Shot Potemkin
Vladimir:
In the Botkin.
Anya:
Oh!
Vladimir:
And dear old uncle Vanya loved his vodka
Dimitri:
Got it Anya?
Anya:
No!
Vladimir:
The Baron Pushkin
Anya:
He was?
Dimitri:
Short!
Vladimir:
Count Anatoly
Anya:
Had a...
Dimitri:
Wart!
Vladimir:
Count Sergei
Dimitri:
Wore a feathered hat.
Vladimir:
I hear he's gotten very fat.
Anya:
And I recall his yellow cat...
Vladimir:
I don't believe we told her that...
Anya:
If you can learn to do it, I can learn to do it!
Vladimir:
Don't know how you knew it.
Anya:
I simply knew it!
Suddenly I feel like someone new
Vladimir, Dimitri:
Anya, you're a dream come true!
Vladimir, Dimitri:
If I can learn to do it,
Anya:
If I can learn to do it
Vladimir, Dimitri:
You can learn to do it!
Anya:
You can learn to do it
Vladimir, Dimitri:
Pull yourself together
All Three:
And you'll pull through it!
Vladimir:
Tell yourself it's easy,
All Three:
And it's true--
Vladimir, Dimitri:
You can learn to do it,
Anya:
Nothing to it!
All Three:
YOU can learn to do it too!
Kelsey Grammer (Vladimir) , Liz Callaway (Anastasia), Jonathan
Dokuchitz (Dimitri). Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens / Music by Stephen
Flaherty. © 1996, 1997 T C F Music Publishing, Inc. (ASCAP). (p)
1997 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
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