America 1956 West Side Story

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 17 September 2010
2010

ALL: I like to be in America!
O.K. by me in America!
Ev'rything free in America
For a small fee in America!

ROSALIA: I like the city of San Juan.
ANITA: I know a boat you can get on.
ROSALIA: Hundreds of flowers in full bloom.
ANITA: Hundreds of people in each room!

ALL: Automobile in America,
Chromium steel in America,
Wirespoke wheel in America,
Very big deal in America!

ROSALIA: I'll drive a Buick through San Juan.
ANITA: If there's a road you can drive on.
ROSALIA: I'll give my cousins a free ride.
ANITA: How you get all of them inside?

ALL: Immigrant goes to America,
Many hellos in America;
Nobody knows in America
Puerto Rico's in America!

ROSALIA: I'll bring a T.V. to San Juan.
ANITA: If there a current to turn on!
ROSALIA: I'll give them new washing machine.
ANITA: What have they got there to keep clean?

ALL: I like the shores of America!
Comfort is yours in America!
Knobs on the doors in America,
Walltowall floors in America!

ROSALIA: When I will go back to San Juan.
ANITA: When you will shut up and get gone?
ROSALIA Everyone there will give big cheer!
ANITA: Everyone there will have moved here!

ALL: I like to be in America!
O.K. by me in America!
Ev'rything free in America
For a small fee in America!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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America 1956
from "West Side Story"
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
© 1956,1957 by The Estate of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 17 September 2010 at 16.13
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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