Listen to America by Karen Olivo, Jennifer Sanchez & West Side Story Ensemble (2009)

America

Karen Olivo, Jennifer Sanchez & West Side Story Ensemble (2009)

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West Side Story - The New Broadway Cast - America (Music Video)

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Listen to West Side Story (2009 New Broadway Cast) by Stephen Sondheim, Matt Cavenaugh, Josefina Scaglione, Cody Green & Karen Olivo

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Karen Olivo

Vocals

Jennifer Sanchez

Jennifer Sanchez

Vocals

West Side Story Ensemble (2009)

West Side Story Ensemble (2009)

Vocals

New Broadway Cast of West Side Story (2009)

New Broadway Cast of West Side Story (2009)

Performer

West Side Story Orchestra

West Side Story Orchestra

Performer

Patrick Vaccariello

Patrick Vaccariello

Conductor

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein

Composer

Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim

Lyrics

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

David Caddick

Producer

David Lai

Producer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Puerto Rico You lovely island

Island of tropical breezes

Always the pineapples growing

Always the coffee blossoms blowing

[Verse 2]

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

[Verse 3]

I like to be in America

O.K. by me in America

Everything free in America

For a small fee in America

[Verse 4]

I like the city of San Juan

[Verse 5]

I know a boat you can get on

[Verse 6]

Hundreds of flowers in full bloom

[Verse 7]

Hundreds of people in each room

[Verse 8]

Automobile in America

Chromium steel in America

Wire-spoke wheel in America

Very big deal in America

[Verse 9]

I'll drive a Buick through San Juan

[Verse 10]

If there's a road you can drive on

[Verse 11]

I'll give my cousins a free ride

[Verse 12]

How you get all of them inside?

[Verse 13]

Immigrant goes to America

Many hellos in America

Nobody knows in America

Puerto Rico's in America

[Verse 14]

I'll bring a T.V. to San Juan

[Verse 15]

If there is a current to turn on

[Verse 16]

I'll give them new washing machine

[Verse 17]

What have they got there to keep clean?

[Verse 18]

I like the shores of America

Comfort is yours in America

Knobs on the doors in America

Wall-to-wall floors in America

[Verse 19]

When I will go back to San Juan

[Verse 20]

When you will shut up and get gone?

[Verse 21]

Everyone there will give big cheer

[Verse 22]

Everyone there will have moved here

Written by: Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim

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