Karaoké Anything Goes 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 landin' on

Plymouth Rock

Plymouth Rock would land on them

In olden days a glimpse of stockin' was looked on as somethin' shockin'

But now God knows anything goes

Good authors too who once knew better words now only use four-letter words

Writin' prose

Anything goes

If drivin' 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 every night the set that's smart is in

Trudin' in nudist parties in

Studios

Anything goes

When Missus Ned McLean

God bless her can get Russian reds to yes her

Then I suppose anything goes

When Rockefeller still can hoard enough 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 clothes

Anything goes

When Sam Goldwyn can with great conviction instruct Anna Sten in diction

Then Anna shows anything goes

When you hear that Lady

Mendl standin' up

Now turns a handspring landin' 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

'Cos Franklin knows anything goes