Learn to Do It lyrics
Learn to Do It
VLAD
You were born in a palace by the sea
DMITRY
A palace by the sea
ANYA
Could it be?
VLAD
Yes, it’s so
You rode horseback when you were only three
ANYA
Horseback riding? Me?
DMITRY
Horse’s name
VLAD
Romeo
You threw tantrums and terrorized the cook
Ha!
How the palace shook
DMITRY
Charming child
VLAD
Wrote the book
But you’d behave when your father gave that look
DMITRY
Imagine how it was
Your long forgotten past
DMITRY & VLAD
We’ve lots and lots to teach you and the time is going fast
VLAD (spoken)
Let’s see you walk
Head up
Regal bearing
(sung)
Now shoulders back and stand up tall
And do not walk, but try to float
ANYA
I feel a little foolish
Am I floating?
DMITRY
Like a sinking boat
VLAD
You give a bow
ANYA
What happens now?
VLAD
Your hand receives a kiss
DMITRY & VLAD
Most of all remember this
VLAD
If I can learn to do it
You can learn to do it
DMITRY
Something in you knows it
DMITRY & VLAD
There’s nothing to it
VLAD
Follow in my footsteps
Shoe by shoe
DMITRY & VLAD
You can learn to do it too
DMITRY
Now elbows in and sit up straight
And do not slurp the stroganoff
ANYA
I never cared for stroganoff
VLAD
She said that like a Romanov
DMITRY
The Samovar
VLAD
The caviar
ANYA
Dessert and then goodnight?
DMITRY & VLAD
Not until you get this right
VLAD
If I can learn to do it
DMITRY
If he can learn to do it
VLAD
You can learn to do it
DMITRY
You can learn to do it
VLAD
Pull yourself together
DMITRY & VLAD
And you’ll pull through it
VLAD
Tell yourself it’s easy
DMITRY & VLAD
And it’s true
You can learn to do it too
VLAD (spoken)
Who is your great grandmother?
ANYA (spoken)
Queen Victoria.
VLAD (spoken)
Great-great grandmother?
ANYA (spoken)
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
VLAD (spoken)
Your best friend is?
ANYA (spoken)
My little brother Alexei.
DMITRY (spoken)
Wrong. Your best friend is -
ANYA (spoken)
I know who my best friend is.
DMITRY (spoken)
What a temper.
ANYA (spoken)
I don’t like being contradicted.
DMITRY (spoken)
That makes two of us.
VLAD (spoken)
Continuing on.
ANYA
I’ve had it
And I hate you both
I’m sorry that we ever met
I’m hungry
And I’m frightened
And I’m only human
Don’t forget
I don’t remember anything
Get out and let me be
VLAD
Anya, darling
Look at me
We're all frightened
Well, slightly, now and then
Shall we start again?
Take a breath
Count to ten
You have courage
And strength you barely know
So blow that little nose
And dry those pretty eyes
A princess like Your Majesty can do this if she tries
Ready?
DMITRY
Set
ANYA
Go
VLAD
Now here’s your great-aunt Olga
DMITRY
How she frolicked
On the Volga
ANYA
Oh!
VLAD
Your distant cousin Vanya
Loved his vodka
DMITRY
Got it, Anya?
ANYA
No.
VLAD
The Duke of Oldenburg was short
DMITRY
Louise of Baden
ANYA
Had a
DMITRY
Wart
VLAD
Count Sergei
DMITRY
Wore a feathered hat
VLAD
I hear he’s gotten very fat
ANYA
And I recall his yellow cat
VLAD
I don’t believe we told her that
DMITRY & VLAD
If you can learn to do it
ANYA
If I can learn to do it
DMITRY & VLAD
He can learn to do it
ANYA
You can learn to do it
DMITRY & VLAD
Pull yourself together
ALL
And we’ll pull through it
VLAD
Tell yourself it’s easy
ALL
And it’s true
DMITRY & VLAD
You can learn to do it
ANYA
Nothing to it
ALL
You can learn to do it
ANYA
The caviar
The stroganoff
The Samovar
The feathered hat
The cousin drank
The Duke was short
And here a wart
And there a cat
The horse’s name was Romeo
So tell me something new
VLAD & DMITRY
Ha!
ANYA
Ah!
ALL
You can learn to do it too
Last Update: June, 26th 2017