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Girls: Puerto Rico, my heart's devotion |
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Let it slip back in the ocean |
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Always the hurricanes blowing |
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Always the population growing |
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And the money owing |
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And the sunlight streaming |
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And the natives steaming |
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I like the isle of Manhattan |
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Smoke on your pipe and put that in |
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I like to be in America |
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OK by me in America |
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Everything free in America |
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Boys: For a small fee in America |
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G: Buying on credit is so nice |
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B: One look at us and they charge twice |
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G: I have a new washing machine |
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B: What will you have though to keep clean? |
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G: Skyscrapers bloom in America |
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G: Cadillacs zoom in America |
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G: Industrial boom in America |
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B: Twelve in a room in America |
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G: Lots of new housing with more space |
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B: Lots of doors slamming in our face |
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G: I'll get a terraced apartment |
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B: Better get rid of your accent |
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G: Life can be bright in America |
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B: If you can fight in America |
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G: Life is all right in America |
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B: If you're all white in America |
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G: Here you are free and you have pride |
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B: Long as you stay on your own side |
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G: Free to be anything you choose |
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B: Free to wait tables and shine shoes |
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B: Everywhere grime in America |
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B: Organized crime in America |
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B: Terrible time in America |
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G: You forget I'm in America |
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B: I think I go back to San Juan |
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G: I know a boat you can get on |
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B: Everyone there will give big cheer |
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G: Everyone there will have moved here |
