AUDRA MCDONALD - MAYBE THIS TIME

MAYBE THIS TIME

AUDRA MCDONALD

SONGWRITERS: John Kander & Fred Ebb

MOVIE: CABARET

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: GO BACK HOME

LABEL: NONESUCH RECORDS

GENRE: EASY LISTENING

YEAR: 2003

Audra Ann McDonald (born July 3, 1970) is an American actress and singer. She has appeared on the stage in both musicals and dramas such as Ragtime, A Raisin in the Sun and Porgy and Bess. With her full lyric soprano voice, she maintains an active concert and recording career performing song cycles and operas as well as in concerts throughout the U.S. She has won six Tony Awards, more performance wins than any other actor, and is the only person to win all four acting categories. She starred as Dr. Naomi Bennett on the ABC television drama Private Practice.

"Maybe This Time" is a song written by John Kander and Fred Ebb which was included in the 1972 film Cabaret. It is sung by the character Sally Bowles, played by Liza Minnelli in the film. It had already been recorded and released twice, in similar arrangements, on Liza Minnelli's debut studio álbum Liza! Liza!, in 1964, and on Minnelli's 1970 album New Feelin', but it turned into a traditional pop standard after its 1972 inclusion in Cabaret.

Maybe this time, i'll be lucky

Maybe this time, he'll stay

Maybe this time

For the first time

Love won't hurry away

He will hold me fast

I'll be home at last

Not a loser anymore

Like the last time

And the time before

Everybody loves a winner

So nobody loved me;

'lady peaceful,' 'lady happy,'

That's what i long to be

All the odds are in my favor

Something's bound to begin

It's got to happen, happen sometime

Maybe this time i'll win.