West Side Story: America
Leonard Bernstein Lyrics


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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 have my own washing machine

[INDIO]
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 all right in America

[BOYS]
If you're all white in America

[GIRLS]
Here you are free and you have pride

[BOYS]
Long as you stay on your own side

[GIRLS]
Free to be anything you choose

[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'll 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



All comments from YouTube:

Mark Joslyn

The fact that Anita can sing a song praising her new home, do a dance that celebrates her heritage, and shit talk her boyfriend, all at the same time, is why she is the absolute queen.

Jennifer Ortiz

True but I hate how they trash PR

X_n_x_gal

I love her

AnthonyYouTubeFan

That's why she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, in 1962.

Princess Cheese

This is why she’s my favorite character

Leonseabastion Rugama

They're not even puerto Rican actors, they're white Americans that painted themselves. And as a latino myself puerto rican American accent does not sound anything like they do. Straight up disrespect

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mssedmebich

Rita Moreno won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony and a Grammy. Only a handful of people have pulled that off. She's a true talent!

Garrett Hord

She was the first actor to win the EGOT!

Steve Vernon

@Garrett Hord not quite. Helen Hayes became an EGOT seven months before Rita Moreno.

Sancho Retáblez

Give her a Nobel. She deserves!

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