Learn To Do It - Various

[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]
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 and dimitri]
we've lots and lots to teach you and the time is gonig fast!

[anastasia]
all right...i'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 t