Finale: How Can You Tell an American? (Reprise)

[STUYVESANT, spoken]
If that's what they want for Americans, that's what they'll get. And the governments to come can worry about it.

[IRVING, spoken]
Very handsomely said.

[TINA, spoken]
Brom.

[BROM, spoken]
Tina.

[TINA, spoken]
I always planned on a large family. I hope you don't mind.

[BROM, spoken]
I shall cooperate in every way possible.

[STUYVESANT, spoken]
And speaking of Americans, something just occurred to me.

[IRVING, spoken]
Yes, sir?

[STUYVESANT, spoken]
Maybe I could qualify. I was never able to take orders!

[ENSEMBLE, spoken]
That's how you tell an American!

(sung)
It isn't that he's black or white
It isn't that he works with tools
It's only that it takes away his appetite
To live by a book of rules

[WOMEN]
Yes, it's just that he hates and he damns all the features
Of any mortal man set above his fellow creatures

[MEN]
And he'll hate the undertaker when at last he dies
If he hears a note of arrogance above him where he lies

[ENSEMBLE]
He does his own living
He does his own dying
Does his loving, does his hating
Does his multiplying
Without the supervision of a governmental plan
And that's an American!

[Bows.]