(VLADIMIR)
You were born in a palace by the sea
[ANASTASIA]
A palace by the sea? Could it be?
(VLADIMIR)
Yes, that's right You rode horseback when you were only three
[ANASTASIA]
Horseback riding? Me?
(VLADIMIR)
And the horse
[DIMITRI]
He was white!
(VLADIMIR)
You made faces and terrorized the cook!
[DIMITRI]
Threw him in the brook!
[ANASTASIA]
Was I wild?
[DIMITRI]
Broke the book!
(VLADIMIR)
But you'd behave when your father gave that look!
[DIMITRI]
Imagine how it was!
(VLADIMIR)
Your long-forgotten past!
{VLADIMIR AND DIMITRI
We've lots and lots to teach you and the time is gonig fast!
[ANASTASIA]
All rightI'm ready!
(VLADIMIR)
Now, shoulders back and stand up tall
[DIMITRI]
And do not walk, but try to float
[ANASTASIA]
I feel a little foolish Am I floating?
(VLADIMIR)
Like a little boat!
[DIMITRI]
You give a bow
[ANASTASIA]
What happens now?
(VLADIMIR)
Your hand receives a kiss
{VLADIMIR AND DIMITRI
Most of all remember this
(VLADIMIR)
If I can learn to do it, you can learn to do it
[DIMITRI]
Something in you knows it
{VLADIMIR AND DIMITRI
There's nothing to it!
(VLADIMIR)
Follow in my footsteps, shoe by shoe!
{VLADIMIR AND DIMITRI
You can learn to do it too!
(VLADIMIR)
Now, elbows in and sit up straight
[DIMITRI]
And never slurp the stroganoff
[ANASTASIA]
I never cared for stroganoff!
(VLADIMIR)
She said that like a Romanov!
[DIMITRI]
The Samovar
(VLADIMIR)
The caviar
[ANASTASIA]
Dessert and then goodnight?
{VLADIMIR AND DIMITRI
Not until you get this right!
(VLADIMIR)
If I can learn to do it
[DIMITRI]
If he can learn to do it
(VLADIMIR)
You can learn to do it!
[DIMITRI]
You can learn to do it
(VLADIMIR)
Pull yourself together
{VLADIMIR AND DIMITRI
And you'll pull through it!
(VLADIMIR)
Tell yourself it's easy
{VLADIMIR AND DIMITRI
And it's true!
You can learn to do it too!
(VLADIMIR)
Next, you must memorize the names of the royalty
Now here we have Kropotkin
[DIMITRI]
Shot Potemkin
(VLADIMIR)
In the Botkin
[ANASTASIA]
Oh!
(VLADIMIR)
And dear old uncle Vanya loved his vodka
[DIMITRI]
Got it Anya?
[ANASTASIA]
No!
(VLADIMIR)
The Baron Pushkin
[ANASTASIA
He was?
[DIMITRI]
Short!
(VLADIMIR)
Count Anatoly
[ANASTASIA]
Had a ?
[DIMITRI]
Wart!
(VLADIMIR)
Count Sergei
[DIMITRI]
Wore a feathered hat
(VLADIMIR)
I hear he's gotten very fat
[ANASTASIA]
And I recall his yellow cat!
(VLADIMIR)
I don't believe we told her that
[ANASTASIA]
If you can learn to do it,
I can learn to do it!
(VLADIMIR)
Don't know how you knew it
[ANASTASIA]
I simply knew it! Suddenly I feel like someone new
{VLADIMIR AND DIMITRI
Anya, you're a dream come true!
If I can learn to do it,
[ANASTASIA]
If I can learn to do it
{VLADIMIR AND DIMITRI
You can learn to do it!
[ANASTASIA]
You can learn to do it
{VLADIMIR AND DIMITRI
Pull yourself together
(ALL THREE)
And you'll pull through it!
(VLADIMIR)
Tell yourself it's easy,
(ALL THREE)
And it's true --
{VLADIMIR AND DIMITRI
You can learn to do it,
[ANASTASIA]
Nothing to it!
(ALL THREE)
You can learn to do it too!