ANITA Puerto Rico, my heart devotion let it sink back in the ocean always the hurricanes blowing always the population growing and the money owing and sunlight streaming and the natives steaming i like the island manhatan
ROSALIA i know you do
ANITA smoke on your pipe and put that in
GAROTAS i like to be in america okay by me in america everything free in america
BERNARDO for a small fee in america
GAROTAS buying on credit is so nice
BERNARDO one look at us and they charge twice
ROSALIA i have my own washing machine
JOSE what will you have though to keep clean?
ANITA skyscrapers bloom in america
ROSALIA cadillacs zoom in america
CONSUELO industry boom in america
GAROTOS twelve in a room in america
ANITA lots of new housing with more space
BERNARDO lots dors slamming in our face
ANITA i'll get a terrace apartment
BERNARDO better get rid of your accent
GAROTAS life can be bright in america
GAROTOS il you can fight in america
GAROTAS life is all right in america
GAROTOS if you're all white in america
GAROTAS here you are free and you have pride
GAROTOS long as you stay on your own side
GAROTAS free to be anything you choose
GAROTOS free to wait tables and shine shoes
BERNARDO everywhere grime in america organized crime in america terrible time in america
ANITA you forgot i'm in america
BERNARDO i think i go back san juan
ANITA i know a boat you can get on bye,bye
BERNARDO everyone there will give big cheer
ANITA everyone there will have moved here
Compositor: Leonard Bernsteind And Stephen Sondheim