Another Alley - l0:00 p.m.



KRUPKE (whistle): Hey, you!



A-RAB: Who me?



KRUPKE: Yeah, you!



(A-rab and Baby John stop surprised.)

A-RAB: Why it is Officer Krupke, Baby John-



BABYJOHN (quaking): Top of the evening, Officer Krupke.



KRUPKE: I'll crack the top of your skulls if you

punks don't stop when I whistle, (exits; other Jets

appear.)



SNOWBOY: Ya see, cops believe everything they

read in the paper.



ACTION: To them we ain't human. We're cruddy

juvenile delinquents. So that's what we give 'em.



SNOWBOY(imitating Krupke): Hey, you!



ACTION: Me, Officer Krupke?



SNOWBOY: Yeah, you! Gimme one good reason

for not dragging ya down the station house, ya punk!



ACTION:

Dear kindly Sergeant Krupke,

You gotta understand,

It's just our bringing up-ke

That get us out of hand.

Our mothers all are junkies,

Our fathers all are drunks,

Golly Moses, natcherly we're punks!



ACTION and QUARTET:

Gee. Officer Krupke, we're very upset;

We never had the love that every child oughta get

We ain't no delinquents,

We're misunderstood,

Deep down inside us there is good!



ACTION:

There is good!



ALL:

There is good, there is good,

There's an tapped good,

Like inside, the worst of us is good.



SNOWBOY(imitating Krupke):

That's a touchin' good story!



ACTION: Lemme tell you to the world!



SNOWBOY ("Krupke"):

Just tell it to the judge!



ACTION(to "Judge"):

Dear kindly Judge, your Honor,

My parents treat me rough,

With all the marijuana,

They won't give me a puff.

They didn't