Learn To do It

[Anya]

How do you become the person you've forgotten you ever were?

[Vladimir]

Take a deep breath. Close your eyes, and imagine another time, another world

You were born in a palace by the sea

[Dmitry]

A palace by the sea

[Anya]

Could it be?

[Vladimir]

Yes, it's so

You rode horseback when you were only three

[Anya]

Horseback riding? Me?

[Dmitry]

Horse's name?

[Vladimir]

Romeo

You threw tantrums and terrorized the cook!

Ha! How the palace shook!

[Dmitry]

Charming child

[Vladimir]

Wrote the book

But you'd behave when you father gave that look

[Dmitry]

Imagine how it was

Your long forgotten past

[Vladimir & Dmitry]

We've lots and lots to teach you and the time is going fast

[Vladimir]

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 little boat!

[Vladimir]

You give a bow

[Anya]

What happens now?

[Vladimir]

Your hand receives a kiss!

[Vladimir & Dmitry]

Most of all remember this:

[Vladimir]

If I can learn to do it

You can learn to do it

[Dmitry]

Something in you knows it

[Vladimir & Dmitry]

There's nothing to it!

[Vladimir]

Follow in my footsteps

Shoe by shoe!

[Vladimir & Dmitry]

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!

[Vladimir]

She said that like a Romanov!

[Dmitry]

The Samovar

[Vladimir]

The caviar

[Anya]

Dessert and then goodnight?

[Vladimir & Dmitry]

Not until you get this right!

[Vladimir]

If I can learn to do it

[Dmitry]

If he can learn to do it

[Vladimir]

You can learn to do it!

[Dmitry]

You can learn to do it

[Vladimir]

Pull yourself together

[Vladimir & Dmitry]

And you'll pull through it!

[Vladimir]

Tell yourself it's easy

[Vladimir & Dmitry]

And it's true!

You can learn to do it, too!

[Vladimir]

Who is your great-grandmother?

[Anya]

Queen Victoria

[Vladimir]

Great-great grandmother?

[Anya]

Uh--- Princess Victoria of Saxe-Colburg-Saalfeld

[Vladimir]

Your best friend is?

[Anya]

My little brother, Alexei

[Dmitry]

Wrong! Your best friend?

[Anya]

I know who my best friend is!

[Dmitry]

What a temper!

[Anya]

I don't like being contradicted!

[Dmitry]

That makes two of us!

[Vladimir]

Continuing on...

[Anya]

I've had it, and I hate you both

I'm sorry that we ever met

I'm hungry, I'm frightened

And I'm only human, don't forget!

I don't remember anything

Get out and let me be!

[Vladimir]

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

[Vladimir]

Now here's your great Aunt Olga

[Dmitry]

How she frolicked on the Volga

[Anya]

Oh!

[Vladimir]

Your distant cousin Vanya loved his vodka

[Dmitry]

Got it, Anya?

[Anya]

No!

[Vladimir]

The Duke of Oldenburgh was short!

[Dmitry]

Louise of Boden

[Anya]

Had a--

[Dmitry]

Wart!

[Vladimir]

Count Sergei

[Dmitry]

Wore a feathered hat

[Vladimir]

I hear he's gotten very fat

[Anya]

And I recall his yellow cat!

[Vladimir]

I don't believe we told her that

[Vladimir & Dmitry]

If you can learn to do it

[Anya]

I can learn to do it!

[Vladimir & Dmitry]

He can learn to do it

[Anya]

You can learn to do it!

[Vladimir & Dmitry]

Pull yourself together

[Anya, Vladimir & Dimitry]

And we'll pull through it!

[Vladimir]

Tell yourself it's easy

[Anya, Vladimir & Dmitry]

And it's true

[Vladimir & Dmitry]

You can learn to do it

[Anya]

Nothing to it!

[Anya, Vladimir & Dmitry]

You can learn to do it

[Anya]

The caviar, the stroganoff, the Samovar, the feathered hat, the cousin drank, the duke was short, here a wart and there a cat. The horse's name was Romeo, so tell me something new

[Vladimir & Dmitry]

Ha!

[Anya, Vladimir & Dimitry]

You can learn to do it, too!