Lyrics:

Your public needs you!
We need you, too!
Would you not rather have
Your precious little ingenue?
Signora, no!
The world wants you!
Prima donna
First lady of the stage!
Your devotees
Are on their knees
To implore you!
Can you bow out
When they're shouting your name?
Think of how they all adore you!
Prima donna
Enchant us once again!
Think of your muse
And of the queues
'Round the theatre!
Can you deny us the triumph in store?
Sing, prima donna, once more!
Christine spoke of an angel...
Prima donna, your song shall live again!
You took a snub (Think of your public!)
But there's a public (She has heard-)
Who needs you! (the voice-) (Those who hear your voice-)
(Of the-) (liken you to an angel!)
Think of their cry (angel of music!) (Is this her-)
Of undying support! (angel of music?)
(We get our-)
Follow where the limelight (opera) (She get's her limelight) (Is this-)
Leads you! (Angel or madman?) (ghost an angel or madman)
(Leading ladies are a trial!)
Prima donna (Voice of hell-)
Your song shall never die! (or of heaven?) (Heaven help you-)
You'll sing again (those who doubt) (Orders!) (Tears)
And to an unending (This miscasting-) (Warnings!) (Oaths)
Ovation! (will invite damnation) (Bliss or damnation?) (Lunatic demands) (are regular-)
Think how you'll shine (occurences!)
In that final (Oh fools-) (Surely-) (Surely, for)
Encore! (to have flounted his-) (her sake) (he'll-) (Surely-)
Sing, prima donna (warnings! Think-) (strike back) (they'll be further scenes worse than this)
Once more! (Which has claimed her?) (before these-) (I must see these-) (if his threats and-)
(Demands are rejected!)
Who'd believe a diva
Happy to relieve a
A chorus girl, who's gone (Christine-)
And slept with the patron? (must be-)
Raoul and the soubrette (protected!) (O, fortun-)
Entwined in love's duet! (-ata non-)
Although he may demur (ancor-)
He must have been with her! (abbandon-)
You'd never get away (-ata!)
With all this in a play
But if it's loudly sung (This is a-) (His game is-)
And in a foreign tongue (game you cannot hope to-) (over!)
It's just the sort of story (win!) (And in-)
Audiences adore (Box Five a new game will begin)
In fact a perfect (But if this-) (For, if this)
Opera! (curse is on this-)
Prima donna (opera) (The stress that falls upon a famous prima-)
The world is at your feet! (donna! Terrible diseases, coughs and colds and-) (Then I fear the-)
A nation waits (sneezes! Still the-) (outcome) (Should you-)
And how it hates (driest throat will reach the-) (Christine plays the Pageboy-) (dare to-)
To be cheated! (highest note in search of perfect opera!) (Carlotta plays the Countess) (when you once again)
Light up the stage
With that age-old
Rapport!
Sing, prima donna
Once more!
So, it is to be war between us!
If these demands are not met
A disaster beyond your imagination will occur!
Once more!