"ANYTHING GOES"
From Anything Goes (1934)
LYRICS BY COLE PORTER
(Music by Cole Porter)
(Verse)
1 Times have changed,
2 And we've often rewound the clock
3 Since the Puritans got a shock
4 When they landed on Plymouth Rock.
5 If today any shock they should try to stem,
6 'Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock,
7 Plymouth Rock would land on them.
(First Refrain)
1 In olden days, a glimpse of stocking
2 Was looked on as something shocking,
3 But now, God knows,
4 Anything goes.
5 Good authors, too, who once knew better words
6 Now only use four-letter words writing prose.
7 Anything goes.
8 If driving fast cars you like,
9 If low bars you like,
10 If old hymns you like,
11 If bare limbs you like,
12 If Mae West you like,
13 Or me undressed you like,
14 Why, nobody will oppose.
15 When ev'ry night the set that's smart is in-
16 Truding in nudist parties
17 In Studios,
18 Anything goes.
(Second Refrain)
1 When Missus Ned McLean (God bless her)
2 Can get Russian reds to "yes" her,
3 Then I suppose
4 Anything goes.
5 When Rockefeller still can hoard enough money
6 To let Max Gordon produce his shows,
7 Anything goes.
8 The world has gone mad today
9 And good's bad today,
10 And black's white today,
11 And day's night today,
12 And that gent today
13 You gave a cent today
14 Once had several chateaux.
15 When folks who still can ride in jitneys
16 Find out Vanderbilts and Whitneys
17 Lack baby clo'es,
18 Anything goes.
(Third Refrain)
1 If Sam Goldwyn can with great conviction
2 Instruct Anna Sten in diction,
3 Then Anna shows
4 Anything goes.
5 When you hear that Lady Mendl standing up
6 Now turns a handspring landing up on her toes,
7 Anything goes.
8 Just think of those shocks you've got
9 And those knocks you've got
10 And those blues you've got
11 From that news you've got
12 And those pains you've got
13 (If any brains you've got)
14 From those little radios.
15 So Missus R., with all her trimmin's,
16 Can broadcast a bed from Simmons
17 'Cause Franklin knows
18 Anything goes.
From Anything Goes (1934)
LYRICS BY COLE PORTER
(Music by Cole Porter)
(Verse)
1 Times have changed,
2 And we've often rewound the clock
3 Since the Puritans got a shock
4 When they landed on Plymouth Rock.
5 If today any shock they should try to stem,
6 'Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock,
7 Plymouth Rock would land on them.
(First Refrain)
1 In olden days, a glimpse of stocking
2 Was looked on as something shocking,
3 But now, God knows,
4 Anything goes.
5 Good authors, too, who once knew better words
6 Now only use four-letter words writing prose.
7 Anything goes.
8 If driving fast cars you like,
9 If low bars you like,
10 If old hymns you like,
11 If bare limbs you like,
12 If Mae West you like,
13 Or me undressed you like,
14 Why, nobody will oppose.
15 When ev'ry night the set that's smart is in-
16 Truding in nudist parties
17 In Studios,
18 Anything goes.
(Second Refrain)
1 When Missus Ned McLean (God bless her)
2 Can get Russian reds to "yes" her,
3 Then I suppose
4 Anything goes.
5 When Rockefeller still can hoard enough money
6 To let Max Gordon produce his shows,
7 Anything goes.
8 The world has gone mad today
9 And good's bad today,
10 And black's white today,
11 And day's night today,
12 And that gent today
13 You gave a cent today
14 Once had several chateaux.
15 When folks who still can ride in jitneys
16 Find out Vanderbilts and Whitneys
17 Lack baby clo'es,
18 Anything goes.
(Third Refrain)
1 If Sam Goldwyn can with great conviction
2 Instruct Anna Sten in diction,
3 Then Anna shows
4 Anything goes.
5 When you hear that Lady Mendl standing up
6 Now turns a handspring landing up on her toes,
7 Anything goes.
8 Just think of those shocks you've got
9 And those knocks you've got
10 And those blues you've got
11 From that news you've got
12 And those pains you've got
13 (If any brains you've got)
14 From those little radios.
15 So Missus R., with all her trimmin's,
16 Can broadcast a bed from Simmons
17 'Cause Franklin knows
18 Anything goes.
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