Vladimir:
You were born in a palace by the sea.

Anya:
A palace by the sea.
Could it be?

Vladimir:
Yes, that's right.
You rode horseback
When you were only three.

Anya:
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!

Anya:
Was I wild?

Dimitri:
Wrote the book!

Vladimir:
But you'd behave
When your father gave that look!

Dimitri:
Imagine how it was!

Vladimir:
Your long forgotten past!

Vladimir, Dimitri:
We've lots and lots to teach you
And the time is going fast!

Anya:
All right. I'm ready!

Vladimir:
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?

Vladimir:
Like a little boat!

Dimitri:
You give a bow.

Anya:
What happens now?

Vladimir:
Your hand receives a kiss!

Vladimir, 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.

Both:
There's nothing to it.

Vladimir:
Follow in my footsteps
Shoe by shoe.

Both:
You can learn to do it too!

Vladimir:
Now, elbows in and sit up straight.

Dimitri:
And never slurp the stroganoff.

Anya:
I never cared for stroganoff!

Vladimir:
She said that like a Romanov!

Dimitri:
The Samovar!

Vladimir:
The caviar!

Anya:
Dessert and then goodnight?

Dimitri, Vladimir:
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.

Both:
And you'll pull through it.

Vladimir:
Tell yourself it's easy.

Vladimir, Dimitri:
And it's true,
You can learn to do it too!

Vladimir:
Next, we memorize the names of the royalty.
Now, here we have Kropotkin.

Dimitri:
Shot Potemkin.

Vladimir:
In the Botkin.

Anya:
Oh!

Vladimir:
And dear old Uncle Vanya
Loved his vodka.

Dimitri:
Got it, Anya?

Anya:
No!

Vladimir:
The Baron Pushkin.

Anya:
He was?

Dimitri:
Short!

Vladimir:
Count Anatoly

Anya:
Had a...

Dimitri:
Wart!

Vladimir:
Count Sergei

Dimitri:
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.

Anya:
If you can learn to do it,
I can learn to do it.

Vladimir:
Don't know how you knew it.

Anya:
I simply knew it!
Suddenly I feel like
Someone new...

Vladimir, Dimitri:
Anya, you're a dream come true!
If I can learn to do it,

Anya:
If you can learn to do it,

Vladimir, Dimitri:
You can learn to do it.

Anya:
I can learn to do it.

Vladimir:
Pull yourself together,

All Three:
And you'll pull through it.

Vladimir:
Tell yourself it's easy.

All Three:
And it's true -

Vladimir, Dimitri:
You can learn to do it,

Anya:
Nothing to it!

All Three: You can learn to do it too!

Vladimir:
It's one, two, three
And suddenly
I see it at a glance -

She's radiant
And confident
And born to take this chance.

I taught her well,
I planned it all!
I just forgot...
Romance!

Vlad, how could you do this?
How will we get through this?
I never should have let them
Dance!