[VLAD]
You were born in a palace by the sea
[ANYA]
A palace by the sea…could it be?
[VLAD]
Yes, that’s right!
You rode horseback when you were only three
[ANYA]
Horseback riding, me?
[VLAD]
And the horse
[DIMITRI]
He was white!
[VLAD]
You made faces and terrorized the cook
[DIMITRI]
Threw him in the brook!
[ANYA]
Was I wild?
[DIMITRI]
Wrote the book!
[VLAD]
But you’d behave when your father gave that look
[DIMITRI]
Imagine how it was
[VLAD]
Your long forgotten past
[D & V]
We’ve lots and lots to teach you
And the time is going fast
[ANYA]
All right, I’m ready!
[VLAD]
Now shoulders back and stand up tall
[DIMITRI]
And do not walk, but try to float!
[ANYA]
I feel a little foolish…am I floating?
[VLAD]
Like a little boat!
[DIMITRI]
You give a bow
[ANYA]
What happens now?
[VLAD]
Your hand receives a kiss
[D & V]
Most of all remember this…
[VLAD]
If I can learn to do it
You can learn to do it
[DIMITRI]
Something in ya knows it
[D & V]
There’s nothing to it
[VLAD]
Follow in my footsteps shoe by shoe
[D & V]
You can learn to do it too!
[VLAD]
Now elbows in and sit up straight!
[DIMITRI]
And never slurp the stroganoff
[ANYA]
I never cared for stroganoff
[VLAD]
She said that like a Romanov!
[DIMITRI]
The samovar!
[VLAD]
The caviar!
[ANYA]
Desert and then…goodnight?
[D & V]
Not until you get this right!
[VLAD]
If I can learn to do it
[DIMITRI]
If he can learn to do it
[VLAD]
You can learn to do it
[DIMITRI]
You can learn to do it
[VLAD]
Pull yourself together
[D & V]
And you’ll pull through it!
[VLAD]
Tell yourself it’s easy
[D & V]
And it’s true
You can learn to do it too!
[VLAD]
Next, we memorize the names of the royalty!
Now here we have Kropotkin
[DIMITRI]
Shot Potempkin
[VLAD]
In the buttkin!
[ANYA]
Ohh!
[VLAD]
And dear old Uncle Vanya loved his vodka
[DIMITRI]
Got it, Anya?
[ANYA]
No!
[VLAD]
The Baron Pushkin…
[ANYA]
He was-
[DIMITRI]
Short!
[VLAD]
Count Anatoly
[ANYA]
Had a-
[DIMITRI]
Wart!
[VLAD]
Count Sergei
[DIMITRI]
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!
[ANYA]
If you can learn to do it I can learn to do it
[VLAD]
Don’t know how you knew it
[ANYA]
I simply knew it!
Suddenly I feel like someone new!
[D & V]
Anya, you’re a dream come true!
If I can learn to do it
[ANYA]
If I can learn to do it
[D & V]
You can learn to do it
[ANYA]
You can learn to do it
[VLAD]
Pull yourself together
[ALL]
And you’ll pull through it!
[VLAD]
Tell yourself it’s easy…
[ALL]
And it’s true!
[D & V]
You can learn to do it…
[ANYA]
Nothing to it!
[ALL]
You can learn to do it too!!!!!