America [Movie Long Version] lyrics

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

JUANO

What will you have, though, to keep clean?

ANITA

Skyscrapers bloom in America

ANOTHER GIRL

Cadillacs zoom in America

ANOTHER GIRL

Industry boom in America

BOYS

Twelve in a room in America

ANITA

Lots of new housing with more space

BERNARDO

Lots of doors slamming in our face

ANITA

I’ll get a terrace apartment

BERNARDO

Better get rid of your accent.

ANITA AND THREE GIRLS

Life can be bright in America

BERNARDO

If you can fight in America

ALL GIRLS

Life is all right in America

ALL BOYS

If you’re all white in America

ANITA AND CONSUELO

Here you are free and you have pride

BERNARDO

Long as you stay on your own side

ANITA

Free to be anything you choose

ALL 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 go back to San Juan

ANITA

I know a boat you can get on

BERNARDO

Everyone there will give big cheer

ANITA

Everyone there will have moved here