Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song West Side Story: The Dance at the Gym, artist - Johnny Green Orchestra
Date of issue: 09.02.2014
Song language: English
West Side Story: The Dance at the Gym |
and sharksare each on their own side of the hall. |
At the climax of the dance, Tony and Bernardo’s sister, |
Maria, see one another: as a delicate cha-cha-cha, |
they slowly walk forward to meeteach other.) |
Meeting Scene |
TONY: |
You’re not thinking I’m someone else? |
MARIA: |
I know you are not. |
TONY: |
Or that we have met before? |
MARIA: |
I know we have not. |
TONY: |
I felt I knew something-never-before was going to happen, |
had to happen. |
But this is … |
MARIA (interrupting): |
My hands are so cold. |
(He takes them in his) Yours too. |
(He moves her hands to his face.) So warm. |
(She moves his hands to herface.) |
TONY: |
Yours, too… |
MARIA: |
But of course. |
They are the same. |
TONY: |
It’s so much to believe. |
You’re not joking me? |
MARIA: |
I have not yet learned how to joke that way. |
I think how I never will. |
JUMP (Bernardo is upon them in an icy rage. |
Chino, whom Bernardo has brought Maria from Puerto Rico |
tomarry, takes her home. |
Riff wants Bernardo |
for"War Council"they agree to meet in hall an hour at |
Doc’s drugstore.) |