Melodi: Leonard Bemstein 1957 - Tekst: Stephen Sondheim 1957
kor: I like to be in America!
O.K. by me in America!
Ev'rything free in America
for a small fee in America!
R: I like the city of San Juan.
A: I know a boat you can get on.
R: Hundreds of flowers in full bloom.
A: Hundreds of people in each mom!
kor: Automobile in America,
chromium steel in America,
wirespoke wheel in America,
very big deal in America!
R: 1'11 drive a Buick through San Juan.
A: If there's a road you ean drive on.
R: 1'11 give my cousins a free ride.
A: How you get all of them inside?
kor: Immigrant goes in America,
many hellos in America,
nobody knows in America
Puerto Ricos in America!
R: 1'11 bring a TV to San Juan.
A: If there's a current to tum on!
R: 1'11 give them new washing machine.
A: What have they got there to keep clean?
kor: I like the shores of America!
Comfort is yours in America!
Knobs on the doors in America,
wall-to-wall floors in America!
R: When I will go back to San Juan.
A: When you will shut up and get gone!
R: Ev'ryone there will give big cheer!
A: Ev'ryone there will have moved here!
kor: I like to be in America!
O.K. by me in America!
Ev'rything free in America
for a small fee in America!
Fra musicalen 'West Side Story' 1957. Sangen, som synges afpigerne, handler om drømme og al den rigdom og luksus, manfår, når blot lykken hjælper en over grænsen til det forjættede land, Amerika. En drøm, der harsk gennemhulles senere i handlingen under de blodige opgør mellem rivaliserende bander af indvandrere.