[ANITA]
Puerto Rico
You lovely island
Island of tropical breezes
Always the pineapples growing
Always the coffee blossoms blowing
[WOMAN #1]
And the money owing
[WOMAN #2]
And the babies crying
[WOMAN #3]
And the people trying
[ANITA]
I like the island Manhattan
[ROSALÍA, spoken]
I know you do!
[ANITA]
Smoke on your pipe and put that in!
[ANITA/LUZ/ROSALÍA]
I like to be in America
[ANITA/LUZ/ROSALÍA/ILLI/CONCHI/MONTSE]
Okay by me in America
[ANITA & ALL WOMEN]
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
[ROSALÍA]
I have my own washing machine
[BERNARDO]
What do you have though to keep clean?
[ANITA & WOMEN]
Skyscrapers bloom in America
Cadillacs zoom in America
Industry boom in America
[THE SHARKS]
Twelve in a room in America
[ANITA]
Lots of new housing with more space
[COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS]
Lots of doors slamming in our face!
[ANITA]
I'll get a terrace apartment
[BERNARDO]
Better get rid of your accent
[ANITA/ROSALÍA/LUZ]
Life can be bright in America
[BERNARDO/BRAULIO/QUIQUE]
If you can fight in America
[ANITA/ROSALÍA/LUZ]
Life is alright in America
[BERNARDO & THE SHARKS]
If you're all white in America
[THE SHARKS & WOMEN]
Hey, hey, hey!
Hey, hey, hey!
[BERNARDO & QUIQUE]
La la la la la la, America
[QUIQUE]
America
[THE SHARKS & WOMEN]
La la la la la la, America
[ANITA]
America
[ANITA & WOMEN]
Here you are free and you have pride
[BERNARDO & THE SHARKS]
'Long as you stay on your own side
[ANITA & WOMEN]
Free to do anything you choose
[BERNARDO & THE SHARKS]
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
[Instrumental]
[QUIQUE]
Hey, hey, hey!
[BERNARDO]
I think I go back to San Juan
[ANITA]
I know a boat you can get on!
[WOMEN, spoken]
Bye-bye!
[BERNARDO]
Everyone there will give big cheer!
[THE SHARKS]
Hey!
[ANITA]
Everyone there will have moved here
[ANITA & WOMEN]
Ow! Ow! Ow!
Ow! Ow! Ow!
Ow! Ow! Ow!
[THE SHARKS, WOMEN]
Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey!
[THE SHARKS & WOMEN]
Hey!
Hey!