Puerto Rico Lyrics

 MUSIC: D. Schoufs/D. Schoovaerts
 LYRICS: D. Schoufs/D. Schoovaerts

 Wake up Angelita, your mama just turned off the light
 Manolo is already waiting by the old water-pipe
 Her shoes in one hand she carefully walks down the stairs
 Holding her breath 'cause there's danger and love in the air.

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 Your papa will beat him if he ever finds out
 Begging the Virgin won't help when you hear Manolito shout,
 Manolito shout
 He's already standing under the starlit sky
 You run to his arms and you laugh and you cry as he holds you tight

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 He says he'll be leaving you soon still you beg him to stay
 But he wants to make it somewhere in the U.S.A.
 And though he'll be far he promises he'll write every day
 When time will be right, he'll come back and he'll take you away

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 Your papa don't like him, he says he's no good
 He steals and he fights and he never behaves, like a young man should
 Angelita she knows, he's not that bad inside
 She takes the medal, she wears on a chain, and presses it into his palm.

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