Ariana DeBose & David Alvarez – America (Lyrics) (From “West Side Story“)
Song: America
Artist: Ariana DeBose & David Alvarez
Album: West Side Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Year: 2021
Lyrics
[ANITA]
Puerto Rico
You lovely island
Island of tropical breezes
Always the pineapples growing
Always the coffee blossoms blowing
And the money owing
And the babies crying
And the people trying
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?
[GIRLS]
Skyscrapers bloom in America
Cadillacs zoom in America
Industry boom in America
[BOYS]
Twelve in a room in America
[ANITA]
Lots of new housing with more space
[ALL]
Lots of doors slamming in our face
[ANITA]
I’ll get a terrace apartment
[BERNARDO]
Better get rid of your accent
[GIRLS]
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
[BOYS]
La la la la la la, America
America
La la la la la la, America
[ANITA]
America
[GIRLS]
Here you are free and you have pride
[BOYS]
Long as you stay on your own side
[GIRLS]
Free to do 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
History
In the show, this song is given to Rosalia, Anita, and the Shark girls. In the film, Anita and the other girls express the view that New York is a better place to live than Puerto Rico, while the boys express the opposite view.
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