Anything Goes Lyrics - Great American Composer Series: Classic Movie And Broadway Show Tunes - Cole Porter

Times have changed 

And we've often rewound the clock 

Since the Puritans got a shock 

When they landed on Plymouth Rock. 

If today 

Any shock they should try to stem 

'Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock, 

Plymouth Rock would land on them. 

In olden days, a glimpse of stocking 

Was looked on as something shocking. 

But now, God knows, 

Anything goes. 

Good authors too who once knew better words 

Now only use four-letter words 

Writing prose. 

Anything goes. 

If driving fast cars you like, 

If low bars you like, 

If old hymns you like, 

If bare limbs you like, 

If Mae West you like, 

Or me undressed you like, 

Why, nobody will oppose. 

When ev'ry night the set that's smart is in- 

Truding in nudist parties in 

Studios. 

Anything goes. 

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When Missus Ned McLean (God bless her) 

Can get Russian reds to "yes" her, 

Then I suppose 

Anything goes. 

When Rockefeller still can hoard en- 

Ough money to let Max Gordon 

Produce his shows, 

Anything goes. 

The world has gone mad today 

And good's bad today, 

And black's white today, 

And day's night today, 

And that gent today 

You gave a cent today 

Once had several chateaux. 

When folks who still can ride in jitneys 

Find out Vanderbilts and Whitneys 

Lack baby clo'es, 

Anything goes. 

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If Sam Goldwyn can with great conviction 

Instruct Anna Sten in diction, 

Then Anna shows 

Anything goes. 

When you hear that Lady Mendl standing up 

Now turns a handspring landing up- 

On her toes, 

Anything goes. 

Just think of those shocks you've got 

And those knocks you've got 

And those blues you've got 

From that news you've got 

And those pains you've got 

(If any brains you've got) 

From those little radios. 

So Missus R., with all her trimmin's, 

Can broadcast a bed from Simmons 

'Cause Franklin knows 

Anything goes.