West Side Story - America (Key: OR Cmaj)

Title: America
Created in the style of: West Side Story (1961 Film)
Genre: Movie, Musical & Soundtrack; Group & Choir
Language: English
Era: 1960s
Key: OR Cmaj
Backing vocals: No
Lyrics: Yes
 
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 (chorus)
I like to be in America
O.K. 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
 
ALL BOYS
If you can fight in America
 
ALL GIRLS
Life is all right in America
 
ALL BOYS
If you're all-white in America
 
INTERLUDE
 
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
 
INTERLUDE
 
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
 
Composer: STEPHEN SONDHEIM/LEONARD BERNSTIEN (CHAPPELL)