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
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
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
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.
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!
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.
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
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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