Don't Cry For Me Argentina

This is the best-known song from the 1978 musical Evita, featuring music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice. The show tells the story of Argentine political leader Eva Perón, the second wife of Argentinean president Juan Perón. This song appears early in the second act as Evita addresses the crowd from the balcony of the Casa Rosada.

Tim Rice's original inspiration for writing a musical about Eva Perón arose from listening to a BBC Radio 4 programme about the Argentine First Lady.

Both Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd-Webber recognized the potential of this song but Rice thought the lyric might be too obscure for a pop single. He did rework it as "It's Only Your Lover Returning," before the duo decided they still preferred "Don't Cry For Me Argentina."