[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:00.13]kiri te kanawa - Art is calling for me (The Enchantress Herbert) [00:06.73]Mama is a queen and Papa is a king [00:10.54]So I am a princess and I know it [00:14.61]But court etiquette is a dull dreary thing [00:18.45]I just hate it all and I show it [00:22.96]To sing on the stage that's the one life for me [00:27.80]My figure's just like Tetrazzini [00:32.29]I know I'd win fame if I sang in Bohéme [00:36.36]That opera by Signor Puccini [00:40.69]I've roulades and the trills [00:44.48]That would send the cold chills [00:48.95]Down the backs of all hearers of my vocal frills [01:02.28]I long to be a prima donna donna donna [01:06.06]I long to shine upon the stage [01:09.34]I have the embonpoint [01:11.98]To become a queen of song [01:13.79]And my figure would look pretty as a page [01:17.80]I want to be a screechy peachy cantatrice [01:21.94]Like other plump girls that I see [01:25.51]I hate society [01:28.50]I hate propriety [01:30.49]Art is calling for me [01:52.73]I'm in the elite and men sigh at my feet [01:56.21]Still I do not fancy my position [01:59.68]I have not much use for the men that I meet [02:03.99]I quite burn with lyric ambition [02:08.54]Those tenors so sweet [02:10.91]If they made love to me [02:13.31]I'd be a success that I do know [02:17.33]And Melba I'd oust if I once sang in Faust [02:21.30]That opera so charming by Gounod [02:25.64]Girls would be on the brink [02:29.04]Of hysterics I think [02:32.95]Even strong men would have to go out for a drink [02:44.72]I long to be a prima donna donna donna [02:48.34]I long to shine upon the stage [02:51.78]With my avoirdupois [02:54.05]And my tra la la la la [02:55.78]I would be the chief sensation of the age [03:00.08]I long to hear them shouting Viva to the Diva [03:03.60]Oh very lovely that must be [03:07.42]That's what I'm sighing for [03:10.53]That's what I'm dying for [03:13.13]Art is calling for me