ROSALIA: Puerto Rico... You lovely island ... Island of tropical breezes Always the pineapples growing, Always the coffee blossoms blowing...
ANITA: Puerto Rico: You ugly island... Island of tropic diseases. Always the hurricanes blowing, Always the population growing... And the money owing, And the babies crying, And the bullets flying. I like the island Manhattan - Smoke on your pipe and put that in!
OTHERS: I like to be in America! Okay by me in America! Everything 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, Wire-spoke 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 can 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 TV to San Juan.
ANITA: If there's a current to turn on!
ROSALIA: I'll give them new washing machine.
ANITA: What have they got there to keep clean? ALL (except Rosalia): I like the shores of America! Comfort is yours in America! Knobs on the doors in America, Wall-to-wall floors in America!
ROSALIA: When I will go back to San Juan -
ANITA: When you will shut up and get gone!
ROSALIA: Ev'ryone there will give big cheer!
ANITA: Ev'ryone there will have moved here!
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