Vladimir
You were born in a palace by the sea

Anastasia
A palace by the sea.
Could it be?

Vladimir
Yes that's right.
You rode horseback when you
were only three

Anastasia
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!

Anastasia
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

Anastasia
All right. I'm ready!

Vladimir
Now shoulders back and
stand up tall

Dimitri
And do not walk, but try to float

Anastasia
I feel a little foolish.
Am I floating?

Vladimir
Like a little boat!

Dimitri
You give a bow.

Anastasia
What happens now?

Vladimir
Your had 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!

Anastasia
I never cared for stroganoff!

Vladimir
She said that like a Romanov!

Dimitri
The Samovar

Vladimir
The caviar

Anastasia
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.

Anastasia
Oh!

Vladimir
And dear old uncle Vanya
loved his vodka

Dimitri
Got in Anya?

Anastasia
No!

Vladimir
The Baron Pushkin

Anastasia
He was?

Dimitri
Short!

Vladimir
Count Anatoly

Anastasia
Had a. . .

Dimitri
Wart!

Vladimir
Count Sergei

Dimitri
Wore a feathered hat.

Vladimir
I hear he's gotten very fat.

Anastasia
And I recall his yellow cat. . .

Vladimir
I don't believe we told her that. . .

Anastasia
If you can learn to do it,
I can learn to do it!

Vladimir
Don't know how you knew it.

Anastasia
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,

Anastasia
If I can learn to do it,

Vladimir & Dimitri
You can learn to do it!

Anastasia
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

Anastasia
Nothing to it!

All Three
You can learn to do it too!

(Waltz Reprise)

Vladimir
It's one-two-three
and suddenly
I see it at a glance --

She's radient
And confident
and born to take this chance

I taught her well
I planned it all!
I just forgot. . .
Romace!

Vlad how could you do this?
How will we get
through this?
I never should have
let them dance!

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