America

(album: West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast Recording) - 1957)

[Rosalia:]
Puerto Rico
You lovely island
Island of tropical breezes
Always the pineapples growing
Always the coffee blossoms blowing

[Anita:]
Puerto Rico
You ugly island
Island of tropic diseases
Always the hurricanes blowing
Always the population growing
And the money owing
And the babies crying
And the bullets flying
I like the island Manhattan
Smoke on your pipe and put that in!

[Girls:]
I like to be in America!
O.K. by me in America!
Ev'rything free in America
For a small fee in America!

[Rosalia:]
I like the city of San Juan

[Anita:]
I know a boat you can get on

[Rosalia:]
Hundreds of flowers in full bloom

[Anita:]
Hundreds of people in each room!

[All:]
Automobile in America
Chromium steel in America
Wire-spoke wheel in America
Very big deal in America!

[Rosalia:]
I'll drive a Buick through San Juan

[Anita:]
If there's a road you can drive on

[Rosalia:]
I'll give my cousins a free ride

[Anita:]
How you get all of them inside?

[All:]
Immigrant goes to America
Many hellos in America
Nobody knows in America
Puerto Rico's in America!

[Rosalia:]
I'll bring a T.V. to San Juan

[Anita:]
If there a current to turn on!

[Rosalia:]
I'll give them new washing machine

[Anita:]
What have they got there to keep clean?

[All:]
I like the shores of America!
Comfort is yours in America!
Knobs on the doors in America
Wall-to-wall floors in America!

[Rosalia:]
When I will go back to San Juan

[Anita:]
When you will shut up and get gone?

[Rosalia:]
Everyone there will give big cheer!

[Anita:]
Everyone there will have moved here!