Chords for West Side Story's "America" by Anita

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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. _
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Vamanos, muchachos. _ _ _ _
Is Maria all right?
I should be so all right.
That will not happen again.
Pepe Indio!
After 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 used Maria for an excuse to start World War III.
It is more than that.
More than what?
She was only dancing.
With an American.
It was really a Polack.
Says the speak.
_ _ _ You _ are not so cute.
That Tony is.
And he works?
A delivery boy.
And what are you?
An assistant.
_ And Gino makes half of what the Polack makes.
The Polack is an American.
_ Your mother is a Pole.
Your father is a Swede.
You were born here.
That's all that you need.
You are an American.
But us _ foreigners.
_ _ _ Lost.
Lost. _
But it's true.
_ When I think of how I thought it would be for us here.
We came like children, believing, trusting.
With our hearts open.
With our arms open.
You came with your mouth open.
_ _ _ You speak and you go back in handcuffs.
I'm going back in a Cadillac.
[Ab] Air conditioning, built-in bar.
Telephone.
_ Television.
_ _ If you had all that here, why would you want to go back to Puerto Rico?
Even if you didn't have all that here, why would you want to go back to Puerto Rico?
It's so good here.
It's so good there.
We had nothing.
_ _ We still have nothing.
[N] Only more expensive.
Yes, yes.
_ Anita. _ No, no.
It's plain Anita now.
No.
You leave me alone.
At least I left. _ _
_ Once an immigrant, always an immigrant.
Hey, look.
[Cm] Instead of a shampoo, she's been brainwashed.
Stop it.
She has given up Puerto Rico and now she is queer for Uncle Sam.
_ Oh, no. _ _
That's not true. _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ Puerto Rico.
_ _ [Cm] My heart's devotion.
_ Let _ it sink back in the ocean.
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Always the _ hurricanes blowing.
_ _ _ [C] Always the _ population growing.
_ _ [Bb] And the [C] money owing.
_ _ [Gm] And the [C] sunlight streaming.
[Cm] _ _ [Gm] [G] And the natives steaming.
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I'll _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] put a ring [Fm] on _ _ your pipe. Good _ _ [C] luck.
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_ _ _ I like to be in America.
_ Okay, buy [G] me in _ America.
[Eb] Everything [Gm] free in _ America.
[Ab] For [C] a small fee in America.
_ Oh, yeah. _ _
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_ Uncredit is so nice.
One look at us [G] and they charge twice.
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_ _ _ Machine.
[G] What will you have, though, to keep clean?
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Skyscrapers bloom [F] in America.
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[G] _ _ Hardika.
[Eb] Industry [Gm] boom in America.
_ _ Boom in _ [C] America.
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_ _ _ _ Lots of new housing with more space.
Lots of doors [G] slamming in our face.
_ _ I'll get a terrorist [Dm] apartment.
Better get rid of your [C] accent. _
[G] _ _ _ [C] Life can be bright [F] in _ America.
[G] If you can fight in _ America.
[Eb] Life is alright in [Gm] America.
_ [G] If you're all white in _ America.
_ [E] Oh, [C] yeah. America.
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_ America.
[C] _ America. _ _
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America.
Here you are free and you have pride.
Long as you [G] stay on your own side.
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_ Anything you choose.
Free [E] to wear devil's and shine shoes.
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Everywhere crime in America.
_ _ Organized crime in _ America.
[Cm] Terrible [Gm] time in America.
[Ab] You forget [C] I'm in _ America. _
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_ think I go back to San Juan.
I know a [Dm] boat you can get on. _ _ _
Everyone there will give [G] big cheers.
Everyone there will have moved here. _ _ _ _
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