Patti LuPone - Buenos Aires lyrics

What's new, Buenos Aires?
I'm new I wanna say I'm just
A little stuck on you you'll be on me too!

I get out here, Buenos Aires
Stand back you oughta know what
You're gonna get in me
Just a little touch of star quality!

Fill me up with your heat
With your noise, with your dirt, overdo me
Let me dance to your beat
Make it loud, let it hurt running through me
Don't hold back, you are certain to impress
Tell the driver this is where I'm staying

Hello, Buenos Aires
Get this just look at me, dressed up
Somewhere to go we'll put on a show!

Take me in at your flood
Give me speed, give me light, set me humming
Shoot me up with your blood
Wine me up with your nights, watch me coming
All I want is a whole lot of excess
Tell the singer this is where I'm playing
Stand back, Buenos Aires
Because you oughta know what you're
Gonna get in me
Just a little touch of star quality!

And if ever I go too far
It's because of the things you are
Beautiful town I love you
And if I need a moment's rest
Give your lover the very best
Real eiderdown and silence

On the 9th February 1935 in Buenos Aires
A polo match between a team of leading
Argentine players and the
Touring British side
The British ambassador said he had never
Seen a social occasion quite
Like it even by the standards
Of Buenos Aires society, the gathering at
The polo ground glittered the
Rolls and the Daimlers, the hampers
From Harrods, the clothes, the diamonds
The crystal, the wines, the procession of
Nannies from England and France the result
Of the match, oh yes
The home team won! But, as
The British ambassador pointed out
That did not reflect badly
On British horsemanship three
Of the Argentine players were
Educated at Eton!

You're a tramp, you're a treat
You will shine to the death, you are shoddy
But you're flesh, you are meat
You shall have every breath in my body
Put me down for a lifetime of success
Give me credit, I'll find ways of paying

Rio de la Plata!
Florida! Corrientes! Nueve de Julio!
All I want to know stand back Buenos Aires
Because you oughta know what you're
Gonna get in me just a little touch of
Just a little touch of
Just a little touch of star quality!