America/I Feel Pretty

America

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 smoke on your pipe and put that in!

I like to be in America, O.K. by me in America,

Everything free in America for a small fee in America.

Buying on credit is so nice one look at us and they charge twice.

I'll 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 twelve in a room 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

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 organized 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.

Everyone there will give big cheer everyone there will have moved here

I Feel Pretty

I feel pretty so pretty I feel pretty and witty and bright!

And I pity any girl who isn't me tonight.

I feel charming, so charming it's alarming how charming I feel!

And so pretty that I hardly can believe I'm real.

See the pretty girl in that mirror there who can that attractive girl be?

Such a pretty face such a pretty dress such a pretty smile such a pretty me!

I feel stunning and entrancing feel like running and dancing for joy,

For I'm loved by a pretty wonderful boy!

Have you met my good friend Maria the craziest girl on the block?

You'll know her the minute you see her she's the one who is in an advanced state of shock.

She thinks she's in love she thinks she's in Spain she isn't in love she's merely insane.

It must be the heat or some rare disease or too much to eat or maybe it's fleas.

Keep away from her send for Chino this is not the Maria we know!

Modest and pure polite and refined well-bred and mature and out of her mind!

I feel pretty so pretty that the city should give me its key.

A committee should be organized to honor me.

I feel dizzy, I feel sunny I feel fizzy and funny and fine,

And so pretty Miss America can just resign!

See the pretty girl in that mirror there what mirror where?

Who can that attractive girl be which? What? Where? Whom?

Such a pretty face such a pretty dress such a pretty smile such a pretty me!

I feel stunning and entrancing feel like running and dancing for joy,

For I'm loved by a pretty wonderful boy