ROSALIA:

Puerto Rico...

You lovely island ...

Island of tropical breezes

Always the pineapples growing,

Always the coffee blossoms blowing...



ANITA (mockingly):

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!



OTHERS (except Rosalia):

I like to be in America!

Okay by me in America!

Everything free in America

For a small fee in America



ROSALIA:

I like the city of San Juan



ANITA:

I know a boat you can get on.



ROSALIA:

Hundreds of flowers in full bloom.



ANITA:

Hundreds of people in each room!



ALL (except Rosalia):

Automobile in America,

Chromium steel in America,

Wire-spoke wheel in America,

Very big deal in America!



ROSALIA:

I'll drive a Buick through San Juan.



ANITA:

If there's a road you can drive on!



ROSALIA:

I'll give my cousins a free ride



ANITA:

How can you get all of them inside?



ALL (except Rosalia):

Immigrant goes to America,

Many hellos in America,

Nobody knows in America,

Puerto Rico's in America!

(The girls dance around Rosalia.)



ROSALIA:

I'll bring a TV to San Juan.



ANITA:

If there's a current to turn on!



ROSALIA:

I'll give them new washing machine.



ANITA:

What have they got there to keep clean?

ALL (except Rosalia):

I like the shores of America!

Comfort is yours in America!

Knobs on the doors in Am