West Side Story - America

AMERICA

ANITA

Puerto Rico,

My heart's devotion--

Let it sink back in the ocean.

Always the hurricanes blowing,

Always the population growing,

And the money owing.

And the sunlight streaming,

And the natives steaming.

I like the island Manhattan,

Smoke on your pipe and put that in.

GIRLS (chorus)

I like to be in America,

Okay by me in America,

Everything free in America -

BERNARDO

For a small fee in America.

ANITA

Buying on credit is so nice.

BERNARDO

One look at us and they charge twice.

ROSALIA

I'll have my own washing machine.

JUANO

What will you have, though, to keep clean?

ANITA

Skyscrapers bloom in America.

ANOTHER GIRL

Cadillacs zoom in America.

ANOTHER GIRL

Industry boom in America.

BOYS

Twelve in a room in America.

ANITA

Lots of new housing with more space.

BERNARDO

Lots of doors slamming in our face.

ANITA

I'll get a terrace apartment.

BERNARDO

Better get rid of your accent.

ANITA AND THREE GIRLS

Life can be bright in America.

BERNARDO

If you can fight in America.

ALL GIRLS

Life is all right in America.

ALL BOYS

If you're all white in America.

(an interlude of WHISTLING and DANCING)

ANITA AND CONSUELO

Here you are free and you have pride.

BERNARDO

Long as you stay on your own side.

ANITA

Free to be anything you choose.

ALL BOYS

Free to wait tables and shine shoes.

BERNARDO

Everywhere grime in America,

Organized crime in America,

Terrible time in America.

ANITA

You forget I'm in America.

(An interlude of MORE DANCING)

BERNARDO

I think I go back to San Juan

ANITA

I know a boat you can get on.

BERNARDO

Everyone there will give big cheer.

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ANITA

Everyone there will have moved here.

Puerto Rico You lovely island

Island of tropical breezes

Always the pineapples growing

Always the coffee blossoms blowing

Puerto Rico you ugly island

Island of tropic diseases

Always the huricanes blowing

Always the population growing

And the money owing

And the babies crying

And the bullets flying

I like the island Manhatten

Smoke on your pipe and put that in

I like to be in America

Ok by me in America

Everything free in America

For a small fee in America

I like the city of San Juan

I know a boat you can get on

Hundreds of flowers in full bloom

Hundreds of people in each room

Automobile in America

Chromium steel in America

Wire spoke wheel in America

Very good deal in America

I'll drive a buick to San Juan

If there's a road you can drive on

I'll give my cousins a free ride

How you get all of them inside

Immigrant goes to America

Many hellos in America

Nobody knows in America

Puerto Rico's in America

I'll bring a t.v. to San Juan

If there's a channel to turn on

I'll bring a new washing machine

What have they got there to keep clean

I like the shores of America

Comfort is your in America

Knobs on the doors in America

Wall to wall floors in America

When I will go back to San Juan

When you will shut up and get gone

Everyone there will be givebig cheer

Everyone there will have moved here

(clap clap clap clap)a-yi-yi-yi(x3)