West Side Story

Schrank: You hoodlums don't own these streets. And I've had all the rough-house I can put up with around here. You want to kill each other? Kill each other, but you ain't gonna do it on my beat. Are there any questions? Bernardo: Yes, sir. Would you mind translating that into Spanish? Schrank: Get your friends out of here, Bernardo - and stay out - please. Bernardo: Okay, Sharks. Vamonos. Schrank: Boy, as if this neighborhood wasn't crummy enough. Now look, fellas. Fellas? Look, let's be reasonable, huh? If I don't get a little law and order around here, I get busted down to a traffic corner. And your friend don't like traffic corners. So that means you're gonna start makin' nice with the PRs [Puerto Ricans] from now on. I said nice - GET IT! 'Cause if you don't, and I catch any of ya doing any more brawlin' in my territory, I'm gonna personally beat the living crud out of each and every one of yas and see that you go to the can and rot there. Say goodbye to the nice boys, Krupke. Krup

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Bernardo: Now I will not say these things to spoil your evening or to hear myself talk. I am here longer than you, Maria...Someday, when you're an old married woman with five children, then you can tell me what to do. Right now, it's the other way around. Now go to bed. Anita: [To Maria] He's the old married woman. [To Bernardo] You know, she has a mother. Also a father. Bernardo: They do not know this country any better than she does. Anita: And you do not know it at all. Girls here are free to have fun. She is in America now. Bernardo: Puerto Rico is in America now. Anita: Sometimes I don't know which is thicker. Your skull or your accent.

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Anita: [sings] Puerto Rico, my heart's devotion,<br>Let it sink back in the ocean.<br>Always the hurricanes blowing,<br>Always the population growing<br>And the money owing,<br>And the sunlight streaming<br>And the natives steaming.<br>I like the island of Manhattan,<br>Smoke on your pipe and put that in! Girls: [sings] I like to be in America,<br>OK by me in America,<br>Everything free in America! Bernardo: [sings] For a small fee in America. Anita: [sings] Buying on credit is so nice. Bernardo: [sings] One look at us and they charge twice.

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Maria: [sings] Tonight, tonight, it all began tonight, I saw you and the world went away.<br>Tonight, tonight, there's only you tonight, what you are, what you do, what you say. Tony: Today, all day I had the feeling a miracle would happen, I know now I was right. Tony and Maria: For here you are and what was just a world is a star tonight.

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Tony: [sings] Make of our hands one hand, Make of our hearts one heart<br>Make of our vows one last vow, Only death will part us now. Maria: Make of our lives one life, Day after day one life Tony and Maria: Now it begins, now we start<br>One hand, one heart, even death won't part us now.

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Tony: [sings] There's a place for us, Somewhere a place for us<br>Peace and quiet and open air wait for us, Somewhere. Maria: There's a time for us, Some day a time for us<br>Time together with time to spare, time to look, time to care, Someday. Tony: Somewhere we'll find a new way of living. Maria: We'll find a way of forgiving, Somewhere.

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