Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim
America
[ROSALÍA]
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!
[WOMEN]
I like to be in America
Okay by me in America
Everything free in America—
For a small fee in America
[ROSALÍA]
I like the city of San Juan
[ANITA]
I know a boat you can get on
[ROSALÍA]
Hundreds of flowers in full bloom—
[ANITA]
Hundreds of people in each room
[ANITA & WOMEN]
Automobile in America
Chromium steel in America
Wire-spoke wheel in America—
Very big deal in America
[ROSALÍA]
I'll drive a Buick through San Juan
[ANITA]
If there's a road you can drive on
[ROSALÍA]
I'll give my cousins a free ride—
[ANITA]
How you get all of them inside?
[ANITA & WOMEN]
Immigrant goes to America
Many "hellos" in America!
Nobody knows in America
Puerto Rico's in America
[Instrumental]
[ROSALÍA]
I'll bring a TV to San Juan—
[ANITA]
If there's a current to turn on
[ROSALÍA]
I'll give them new washing machine
[ANITA]
What have they got there to keep clean?
[ANITA & WOMEN]
I like the shores of America
Comfort is yours in America
Knobs on the doors in America
Wall-to-wall floors in America
[Instrumental]
[ROSALÍA]
When I will go back to San Juan—
[ANITA]
When you will shut up and get gone
[ROSALÍA]
Everyone there will give big cheer!
[ANITA]
Everyone there will have moved here!