America [Broadway Version] lyrics

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

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

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 you get all of them inside?

ALL

Immigrant goes to America

Many hellos in America

Nobody knows in America

Puerto Rico's in America!

ROSALIA

I'll bring a T.V. to San Juan

ANITA

If there a current to turn on!

ROSALIA

I'll give them new washing machine

ANITA

What have they got there to keep clean?

ALL

I like the shores of America!

Comfort is yours in America!

Knobs on the doors in America

Wall-to-wall floors in America!

ROSALIA

When I will go back to San Juan

ANITA

When you will shut up and get gone?

ROSALIA

Everyone there will give big cheer!

ANITA

Everyone there will have moved here!