Learn To Do It

(album: Anastasia (Original Broadway Cast Recording) - 2017)

[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

[Dimitry:]
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?

[Dimitry:]
Horse's name?

[Vladimir:]
Romeo
You threw tantrums and terrorized the cook!
Ha! How the palace shook!

[Dimitry:]
Charming child

[Vladimir:]
Wrote the book
But you'd behave when you father gave that look

[Dimitry:]
Imagine how it was
Your long forgotten past

[Vladimir & Dimitry:]
We've lots and lots to teach you and the time is going fast

[Vladimir:]
Let's see you walk. Head up! Regal bearing!

Now, shoulders back and stand up tall
And do not walk, but try to float

[Anya:]
I feel a little foolish
Am I floating?

[Dimitry:]
Like a sinking boat!

[Vladimir:]
You give a bow

[Anya:]
What happens now?

[Vladimir:]
Your hand receives a kiss!

[Vladimir & Dimitry:]
Most of all remember this:

[Vladimir:]
If I can learn to do it
You can learn to do it

[Dimitry:]
Something in you knows it

[Vladimir & Dimitry:]
There's nothing to it!

[Vladimir:]
Follow in my footsteps
Shoe by shoe!

[Vladimir & Dmitry:]
You can learn to do it too!

[Dimitry:]
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!

[Dimitry:]
The Samovar

[Vladimir:]
The caviar

[Anya:]
Dessert and then goodnight?

[Vladimir & Dimitry:]
Not until you get this right!

[Vladimir:]
If I can learn to do it

[Dimitry:]
If he can learn to do it

[Vladimir:]
You can learn to do it!

[Dimitry:]
You can learn to do it

[Vladimir:]
Pull yourself together

[Vladimir & Dimitry:]
And you'll pull through it!

[Vladimir:]
Tell yourself it's easy

[Vladimir & Dimitry:]
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

[Dimitry:]
Wrong! Your best friend?

[Anya:]
I know who my best friend is!

[Dimitry:]
What a temper!

[Anya:]
I don't like being contradicted!

[Dimitry:]
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?

[Dimitry:]
Set

[Anya:]
Go

[Vladimir:]
Now here's your great Aunt Olga

[Dimitry:]
How she frolicked on the Volga

[Anya:]
Oh!

[Vladimir:]
Your distant cousin Vanya loved his vodka

[Dimitry:]
Got it, Anya?

[Anya:]
No!

[Vladimir:]
The Duke of Oldenburgh was short!

[Dimitry:]
Louise of Boden

[Anya:]
Had a...

[Dimitry:]
Wart!

[Vladimir:]
Count Sergei

[Dimitry:]
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 & Dimitry:]
If you can learn to do it

[Anya:]
I can learn to do it!

[Vladimir & Dimitry:]
He can learn to do it

[Anya:]
You can learn to do it!

[Vladimir & Dimitry:]
Pull yourself together

[Anya, Vladimir & Dimitry:]
And we'll pull through it!

[Vladimir:]
Tell yourself it's easy

[Anya, Vladimir & Dimitry:]
And it's true

[Vladimir & Dimitry:]
You can learn to do it

[Anya:]
Nothing to it!

[Anya, Vladimir & Dimitry:]
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 & Dimitry:]
Ha!

[Anya, Vladimir & Dimitry:]
You can learn to do it, too!