West Side Story Page #3

Please, we are family. Now, go.

Come, Maria.

Maria.

I don't want you.

I want you, though.

I want you for a war council.

Jets and Sharks.

- The pleasure is mine.

- Let's go outside.

I would not leave ladies alone

with your kind around.

We will meet you at midnight.

- Doc's candy store?

- Mm-hm.

And no jazz before then.

I understand the rules,

native boy.

Ice.

Doc's at midnight. Spread the word.

Right, Daddy-O.

Maria.

Maria!

The most beautiful sound I ever heard

Maria

Maria, Maria, Maria

All the beautiful sounds

of the world in a single word

Maria

Maria, Maria, Maria

Maria, Maria

Maria

I just met a girl named Maria

And suddenly that name

Will never be the same to me

Maria

I just kissed a girl named Maria

And suddenly I found

How wonderful a sound can be

Maria

Say it loud and there's music playing

Say it soft

And it's almost like praying

Maria

I'll never stop saying

Maria

Maria

Maria

Maria, Maria

Maria

Maria

Maria, Maria, Maria

Say it loud

and there's music playing

Say it soft

And it's almost like praying

Maria

I'll never stop saying

Maria

The most beautiful sound I ever heard

Maria

I do not say these things

to spoil your evening

or to hear myself talk.

- I am here longer than you.

- S, Nardo.

When you are old and married

with five children,

you can tell me what to do.

Now it is the other way round.

Now go to bed.

He's the old married woman.

You know, she has a mother.

Also a father.

They know this country even less.

You do not know it at all.

Girls here are free to have fun.

She is in America now.

Puerto Rico is in America now.

Sometimes I don't know

which is thicker,

your skull or your accent.

- Vmonos, muchachos.

- Let them wait.

Is Maria all right?

- I should be so all right.

- It will not happen again.

Pepe, Indio!

Tonight, things will be settled.

First, settle your stomach.

Never mind my stomach.

Well, I mind your nose

and your head broken.

- Broken?

- Sure.

They use Maria for an excuse

to start World War III.

It is more than that.

More than what?

She was only dancing.

With an American

who is really a Polack.

Says the Spic.

You are not so cute.

- That Tony is.

- And he works.

A delivery boy.

- And what are you?

- An assistant.

And Chino makes half

of what the Polack makes.

- The Polack is American.

- Here's the commercial.

Your mother's a Pole,

your father's a Swede.

You were born here,

that's all that you need.

You are an American. But us?

Foreigners!

Lice! Cockroaches!

Hey, but it's true.

When I think of

how I thought it would be here.

We came like children -

believing, trusting.

With our hearts open!

With our arms open!

You came with your mouth open.

You did

and you'll go back in handcuffs.

- I'll go in a Cadillac!

- Air-conditioned.

- Built-in bar.

- Telephone.

- And television.

If you had all that here,

why would you go back to Puerto Rico?

Even if you didn't have all that here,

why go back?

It's so good here?

It's so good there?

We had nothing.

Ah, we still have nothing,

only more expensive.

- Anita Josefina... Beatriz...

- No, no. It's plain Anita now.

- Etcetera, etcetera.

- Leave me alone. At least I left.

Once an immigrant, always an immigrant.

Instead of a shampoo,

she was brainwashed.

- Stop it!

- She's given up Puerto Rico,

now she's queer for Uncle Sam.

Oh, no.

That's not true.

Puerto Rico

My heart's devotion

Let it sink back in the ocean

Always the hurricanes blowing

Always the population growing

And the money owing

And the sunlight streaming

And the natives steaming

I like the island Manhattan

I know you do!

Smoke on your pipe

And put that in

I like to be in America

OK by me in America

Everything free in America

For a small fee in America

Ol!

Buying on credit is so nice

One look at us and they charge twice

I have my own washing machine

What will you have,

though, to keep clean?

Skyscrapers bloom in America

Cadillacs zoom in America

Industry boom in America

Lots of new housing with more space

Lots of doors slamming in our face

I'll get a terrace apartment

Better get rid of your accent

Life can be bright in America

If you can fight in America

Life is all right in America

If you're all white in America

La la la la la America

America

La la la la la America

America

Here you are free and you have pride

Long as you stay on your own side

Free to be anything you choose

Free to wait tables and shine shoes

Everywhere grime in America

Organised crime in America

Terrible time in America

You forget I'm in America

I think I go back to San Juan

I know a boat you can get on

Bye-bye!

Everyone there will give big cheer

Everyone there will have moved here

Ow ow ow!

Ow ow ow!

Ow ow oooow!

Ow! Ow! Ow!

Hey, hey! Hey, muchachos!

Vamonos, muchachos. Es tarde ya.

Corre, es tarde! Come on!

Hey, Chino.

What are you doing?

- Meet me on the roof later.

- Meet me on the roof later!

- Will you or won't you?

- Will you or won't you?

Hey!

Well, will you?

You have your big important war council.

The council

or me?

First one,

then the other.

No.

I'm an American girl now.

I don't wait.

Back home, women know their place.

Back home, little boys

don't have war councils.

Ah, but they do here.

You want me to be an American,

don't you?

Buenas noches, Anita.

Josefina

Teresita... Beatriz del Carmen

Margarita

etcetera, etcetera.

Oh! Immigrant!

Buenas noches.

Ten cuidado.

- Buenas noches, Maria.

- Adios, Maria.

Goodnight, Maria.

Goodnight!

Maria!

Maria!

- Maria!

- Ssh!

- Maria!

- Quiet.

Come down.

- No!

- Maria.

Please.

My mother and father will wake up.

Just for a minute.

A minute is not enough.

- For an hour, then.

- I cannot.

- Then forever.

- Ssh!

Then I'm coming up.

Maria!

Momentito, Papa.

Now see what you've done.

- Momentito, Maria.

- CIlate.

- Ssh!

- Ssh!

It is dangerous. If Bernardo knew...

Well, let him know.

I'm not one of 'em, Maria.

But you are not one of us,

and I am not one of you.

- To me, you're all the beautiful...

- Maruca.

S, ya vengo, Papa.

Maruca?

His pet name for me.

I like him... and he will like me.

No.

He is like Bernardo...

Afraid.

Imagine being afraid of you!

You see?

I see you.

Oh, Maria. See only me.

Only you

You're the only thing I'll see forever

In my eyes, in my words

And in everything I do

Nothing else but you, ever

And there's nothing for me but Maria

Every sight that I see is Maria.

Tony, Tony

Always you,

every thought I'll ever know

Everywhere I go, you'll be

All the world is only you and me

Tonight, tonight

It all began tonight

I saw you and the world went away

Tonight, tonight

There's only you tonight

What you are, what you do

What you say

Today

All day I had a feeling

A miracle would happen

I know now I was right

For here you are

And what was just a world

Is a star

Tonight

Tonight

Tonight

The world is full of light

With suns and moons all over the place

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