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 slaming 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    BERNARDO  Everyone there will give big cheer!    ANITA  Everyone there will have moved here    these lyrics are last corrected by isabella celendano