Always the hurricane blowing

Dernière escale à Porto Rico, la magnifique baie de Boquerón, en bas de la côte Ouest, face au passage de Mona et à Saint Domingue. On ne peut quitter l’île sans rendre hommage à Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, George Chakiris et toute la bande :

ROSALIA
Puerto Rico,
You lovely island…
Island of tropical breezes.
Always the pineapples growing,
Always the coffee blossoms blowing…

ANITA
Puerto Rico…
You ugly island…
Island of tropic diseases.
Always the hurricanes blowing,
Always the population growing…
And the money owing,
And the babies crying,
And the bullets flying.
I like the island Manhattan.
Smoke on your pipe and put that in!

OTHERS
I like to be in America!
OK by me in America!
Ev’rything free in America
For a small fee in America!

ROSALIA
I like the city of San Juan.

ANITA
I know a boat you can get on.

ROSALIA
Hundreds of flowers in full bloom.

ANITA
Hundreds of people in each room!

ALL 
Automobile in America,
Chromium steel in America,
Wire-spoke wheel in America,
Very big deal in America!

ROSALIA
I’ll drive a Buick through San Juan.

ANITA 
If there’s a road you can drive on.

ROSALIA
I’ll give my cousins a free ride.

ANITA 
How you get all of them inside?

ALL 
Immigrant goes to America,
Many hellos in America;
Nobody knows in America
Puerto Rico’s in America!

ROSALIA
I’ll bring a TV to San Juan.

ANITA
If there a current to turn on!

ROSALIA
I’ll give them new washing machine.

ANITA
What have they got there to keep clean?

ALL 
I like the shores of America!
Comfort is yours in America!
Knobs on the doors in America,
Wall-to-wall floors in America!

ROSALIA
When I will go back to San Juan.

ANITA
When you will shut up and get gone?

ROSALIA
Everyone there will give big cheer!

ANITA
Everyone there will have moved here!

        

Pour manger, Galloway’s est très bien, ainsi que La Marea et le Club Nautico. Sans oublier les vendeurs de palourdes et d’huîtres partout…  

Étiquettes : Boqueron, Galloway's, George Chakiris, La Marea, Leonard Bernstein, Natalie Wood, porto rico, Rita Moreno, Stephen Sondheim, West Side Story