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Artist: Leonard Bernstein
Canonical path: /leonard-bernstein/america
Related lyric paths: 6
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America
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America
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Puerto Rico, my heart's devotion
Let it slip 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 isle of Manhattan
Smoke on your pipe and put that in
I like to be in America
OK by me in America
Everything free in America
Boys: For a small fee in America
Buying on credit is so nice
One look at us and they charge twice
I have a new washing machine
What will you have though to keep clean?
Skyscrapers bloom in America
Cadillacs zoom in America
Industrial boom in America
Twelve in a room in America
Lots of new housing with more space
Lots of doors slamming in our face
I'll get a terraced apartment
Better get rid of your accent
Life can be bright in America
If you can fight in America
Life is all right in America
If you're all white in America
Here you are free and you have pride
Long as you stay on your own side
Free to be anything you choose
Free to wait tables and shine shoes
Everywhere grime in America
Organized crime in America
Terrible time in America
You forget I'm in America
I think I go back to San Juan
I know a boat you can get on
Everyone there will give big cheer
Everyone there will have moved here
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