Anything Goes

[00:02]Times have changed

[00:06]And we've often rewound the clock

[00:09]Since the Puritans got a shock

[00:12]When they landed on Plymouth Rock.

[00:16]If today

[00:19]Any shock they should try to stem

[00:22]'Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock,

[00:26]Plymouth Rock would land on them.

[00:29]In olden days, a glimpse of stocking

[00:32]Was looked on as something shocking.

[00:34]But now, God knows, Anything goes.

[00:41]Good authors too who once knew better words

[00:44]Now only use four-letter words

[00:47]Writing prose.

[00:50]Anything goes.

[00:52]If driving fast cars you like,

[00:55]If low bars you like,

[00:56]If old hymns you like,

[00:58]If bare limbs you like,

[00:59]If Mae West you like,

[01:01]Or me undressed you like,

[01:02]Why, nobody will oppose.

[01:05]When ev'ry night the set that's smart is in-

[01:09]Truding in nudist parties in

[01:11]Studios.

[01:14]Anything goes.

[01:18]

[02:40]When Missus Ned McLean (God bless her)

[02:42]Can get Russian reds to "yes" her,

[02:45]Then I suppose

[02:47]Anything goes.

[02:50]When Rockefeller still can hoard enough money to let Max Gordon

[02:54]Produce his shows,

[02:56]Anything goes.

[03:01]The world has gone mad today

[03:03]And good's bad today,

[03:04]And black's white today,

[03:06]And day's night today,

[03:07]And that gent today

[03:08]You gave a cent today

[03:10]Once had several chateaux.

[03:12]When folks who still can ride in jitneys

[03:15]Find out Vanderbilts and Whitneys

[03:17]Lack baby clo'es,

[03:20]Anything goes.

[03:22]

[04:25]If Sam Goldwyn can with great conviction

[04:28]Instruct Anna Sten in diction,

[04:30]Then Anna shows

[04:33]Anything goes.

[04:36]When you hear that Lady Mendl standing up

[04:39]Now turns a handspring landing up-

[04:41]On her toes,

[04:43]Anything goes.

[04:46]Just think of those shocks you've got

[04:48]And those knocks you've got

[04:49]And those blues you've got

[04:50]From that news you've got

[04:52]And those pains you've got(If any brains you've got)

[04:54]From those little radios.

[04:57]So Missus R., with all her trimmin's,

[05:00]Can broadcast a bed from Simmons

[05:02]'Cause Franklin knows

[05:05]Anything goes.