America

[Anita]

Puerto Rico

You lovely island

Island of tropical breezes

Always the pineapple growing

Always the coffee blossoms blowing

And the money owing

[Women]

And the baby's crying

And the people trying

I like the island Manhattan

[Women]

I know you do!

[Anita]

Smoke on your pipe

And put that in

All women

I like to be in America

Okay by me in America

Everything free in America

[Bernardo]

For a small fee in America

[Anita]

Buy on credit is so nice

[Bernardo]

One look at us and they charge twice

[Women]

I have my own washing machine

[Men sharks]

What will you have don't you keep clean?

[Anita]

Skyscrapers bloom in America

[Women]

Cadilacs zoom in America

[Women]

Industry boom in America

[Sharks]

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]

Life can be bright in America

[Sharks]

If you can fight in America

[All women]

Life is all right in America

[Sharks]

If you're all-white in America

La la la la America

America

La la la la America

America

[Anita]

Here you are free, and you have pride

[Sharks]

Long as you stay on your own side

[Anita]

Free to be anything you choose

[Sharks]

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

Bye-bye

[Bernardo]

Everyone there will give big cheer

[Anita]

Everyone there will have moved here

Go! Go! Go! Go!

Ole!