America  
Composer(s): Leonard Bernstein - Stephen Sondheim
First release by: Marilyn Cooper, Chita Rivera & The Shark Girls - 1957
Covered by multiple other artists



Rosalia:                                                                
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!

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 America
Wall-to-wall floors in America!
(They dance)

Rosalia:
When I will go back to San Juan 

Anita:
When you will shut up and get gone!

Rosalia:
Ev'ryone there will give big cheer!

Anita:
Ev'ryone there will have moved here!