I love how this song is supposed to be this very light, peppy song, yet she belting the entire damn thing. 😂😂😂 It's like listening to a hair metal singer lullaby a child lol.
In the stage version America is sung/performed/danced by the girls only but in the film version the lyrics are slightly different and it includes the guys
Puerto Rico, You lovely island . . . Island of tropical breezes. Always the pineapples growing, Always the coffee blossoms blowing . . . 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! I like to be in America! O.K. by me in America! Ev'rything free in America For a small fee in America! I like the city of San Juan. I know a boat you can get on. Hundreds of flowers in full bloom. Hundreds of people in each room! Automobile in America, Chromium steel in America, Wire-spoke wheel in America, Very big deal in America! I'll drive a Buick through San Juan. If there's a road you can drive on. I'll give my cousins a free ride. How you get all of them inside? Immigrant goes to America, Many hellos in America; Nobody knows in America Puerto Rico's in America! I'll bring a T.V. to San Juan. If there a current to turn on! I'll give them new washing machine. What have they got there to keep clean? I like the shores of America! Comfort is yours in America! Knobs on the doors in America, Wall-to-wall floors in America! When I will go back to San Juan. When you will shut up and get gone? Everyone there will give big cheer! Everyone there will have moved here!
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Rewatching the whole concert this is from and just geeking out over all the great performances! 🤩😍
She’s so good
Amazing!
Bravo Bravo
I love how this song is supposed to be this very light, peppy song, yet she belting the entire damn thing. 😂😂😂
It's like listening to a hair metal singer lullaby a child lol.
360p ??
But where are the guys?
This is the stage musical version. In the musical it happens differently
In the stage version America is sung/performed/danced by the girls only but in the film version the lyrics are slightly different and it includes the guys
Puerto Rico,
You lovely island . . .
Island of tropical breezes.
Always the pineapples growing,
Always the coffee blossoms blowing . . .
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!
I like to be in America!
O.K. by me in America!
Ev'rything free in America
For a small fee in America!
I like the city of San Juan.
I know a boat you can get on.
Hundreds of flowers in full bloom.
Hundreds of people in each room!
Automobile in America,
Chromium steel in America,
Wire-spoke wheel in America,
Very big deal in America!
I'll drive a Buick through San Juan.
If there's a road you can drive on.
I'll give my cousins a free ride.
How you get all of them inside?
Immigrant goes to America,
Many hellos in America;
Nobody knows in America
Puerto Rico's in America!
I'll bring a T.V. to San Juan.
If there a current to turn on!
I'll give them new washing machine.
What have they got there to keep clean?
I like the shores of America!
Comfort is yours in America!
Knobs on the doors in America,
Wall-to-wall floors in America!
When I will go back to San Juan.
When you will shut up and get gone?
Everyone there will give big cheer!
Everyone there will have moved here!