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)