Anything Goes - Cole Porter

[04:13.0]Times have changed
[04:13.0]And we've often rewound the clock
[04:13.0]Since the Puritans got a shock
[04:13.0]When they landed on Plymouth Rock.
[04:13.0]If today
[04:13.0]Any shock they should try to stem
[04:13.0]'Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock,
[04:13.0]Plymouth Rock would land on them.
[04:13.0]In olden days, a glimpse of stocking
[04:13.0]Was looked on as something shocking.
[04:13.0]But now, God knows,
[04:13.0]Anything goes.
[04:13.0]Good authors too who once knew better words
[04:13.0]Now only use four-letter words
[04:13.0]Writing prose.
[04:13.0]Anything goes.
[04:13.0]If driving fast cars you like,
[04:13.0]If low bars you like,
[04:13.0]If old hymns you like,
[04:13.0]If bare limbs you like,
[04:13.0]If Mae West you like,
[04:13.0]Or me undressed you like,
[04:13.0]Why, nobody will oppose.
[04:13.0]When ev'ry night the set that's smart is in-
[04:13.0]Truding in nudist parties in
[04:13.0]Studios.
[04:13.0]Anything goes.
[04:13.0]When Missus Ned McLean (God bless her)
[04:13.0]Can get Russian reds to "yes" her,
[04:13.0]Then I suppose
[04:13.0]Anything goes.
[04:13.0]When Rockefeller still can hoard en-
[04:13.0]Ough money to let Max Gordon
[04:13.0]Produce his shows,
[04:13.0]Anything goes.
[04:13.0]The world has gone mad today
[04:13.0]And good's bad today,
[04:13.0]And black's white today,
[04:13.0]And day's night today,
[04:13.0]And that gent today
[04:13.0]You gave a cent today
[04:13.0]Once had several chateaux.
[04:13.0]When folks who still can ride in jitneys
[04:13.0]Find out Vanderbilts and Whitneys
[04:13.0]Lack baby clo'es,
[04:13.0]Anything goes.
[04:13.0]If Sam Goldwyn can with great conviction
[04:13.0]Instruct Anna Sten in diction,
[04:13.0]Then Anna shows
[04:13.0]Anything goes.
[04:13.0]When you hear that Lady Mendl standing up
[04:13.0]Now turns a handspring landing up-
[04:13.0]On her toes,
[04:13.0]Anything goes.
[04:13.0]Just think of those shocks you've got
[04:13.0]And those knocks you've got
[04:13.0]And those blues you've got
[04:13.0]From that news you've got
[04:13.0]And those pains you've got
[04:13.0](If any brains you've got)
[04:13.0]From those little radios.
[04:13.0]So Missus R., with all her trimmin's,
[04:13.0]Can broadcast a bed from Simmons
[04:13.0]'Cause Franklin knows
[04:13.0]Anything goes.