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

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



INDIO

What will you have though to keep clean?



ANITA

Skyscrapers bloom in America



ROSALIA

Cadillacs zoom in America



TERESITA

Industry boom in America



BOYS

Twelve in a room in America



ANITA

Lots of new housing with more space



BERNARDO

Lots of doors slaming in our face



ANITA

I'll get a terrace apartment



BERNARDO

Better get rid of your accent



ANITA

Life can be bright in America



BOYS

If you can fight in America



GIRLS

Life is all right in America



BOYS

If you're all white in America



GIRLS

Here you are free and you have pride



BOYS

Long as you stay on your own side



GIRLS

Free to be anything you choose



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



BERNARDO

I think I'll go back to San Juan



ANITA

I know what boat you can get on

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