ANITA (spoken)

Oh no!  That is not true!



(sung)

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 island Manhattan



CONSUELO (spoken)

I know you do!



ANITA (sung)

Smoke on your pipe and put that in!



GIRLS

I like to be in America

OK 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



CHINO

What will you have, though, to keep clean?



ANITA

Skyscrapers bloom in America



ROSALIA

Cadillacs zoom in America



TERESITA

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

Life can be bright in America



BOYS

If you can fight in America



GIRLS

Life is alright in America



BOYS

If you're all white in America



ANITA and CONSUELO

Here you are free and you have pride



BOYS

Long as you stay on your own side



ANITA and CONSUELO

Free to be anything you choose



BOYS

Free to wait tables and shine shoes



BERNARDO

Everywhere grime in America

Organised 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!