Porter ANYTHING GOES

"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.

Porter JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS

"JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS"
From Jubilee (1935)
LYRICS BY COLE PORTER
(Music by Cole Porter)

    (Verse)
  1  As Dorothy Parker once said to her boyfriend:
  2  "Fare thee well!"
  3  As Columbus announced
  4  When he knew he was bounced:
  5  "It was swell, Isabelle, swell!
  6  "As Abelard said to Heloise:
  7  "Don't forget to drop a line to me, please."
  8  As Juliet cried in her Romeo's ear:
  9  "Romeo, why not face the fact, my dear?"

    (Refrain)
  1  It was just one of those things,
  2  Just one of those crazy flings,
  3  One of those bells that now and then rings,
  4  Just one of those things.
  5  It was just one of those nights,
  6  Just one of those fabulous flights --
  7  A trip to moon on gossamer wings.
  8  Just one of those things.
  9  If we'd thought a bit of the end of it
10  When we started painting the town,
11  We'd have been aware that our love affair
12  Was too hot not to cool down. 
13  So, goodbye, dear, and amen!
14  Here's hoping we meet now and then.
15  It was great fun,
16  But it was just one of those things!

Porter YOU DON'T KNOW PAREE

"YOU DON'T KNOW PAREE"
From Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929)
LYRICS BY COLE PORTER
(Music by Cole Porter)

    (Verse)
  1  You come to Paris, you come to play.
  2  You have a wonderful time.  You go away.
  3  And from then on, you talk of Paris knowingly.
  4  You may know Paris, you don't know Paree.

    (Refrain)
  1  Though you've been around a lot,
  2  And danced a lot, and laughed a lot,
  3  You don't know Paree.
  4  You may say you've seen a lot,
  5  And heard a lot, and learned a lot--
  6  You don't know Paree.
  7  Paree will still be laughing after ev'ry one of us disappears,
  8  But never once forget, her laughter is the laughter that hides the tears.
  9  And until you've lived a lot, and loved a lot, and lost a lot,
10  You don't know Paree, you don't know Paree.

Porter LOVE FOR SALE

"LOVE FOR SALE"
From The New Yorkers (1930)
LYRICS BY COLE PORTER
(Music by Cole Porter)

  1  When the only sound in the empty street
  2  Is the heavy tread of the heavy feet
  3  That belong to a lonesome cop,
  4  I open shop.
  5  When the moon so long has been gazing down
  6  On the wayward ways of this wayward town
  7  That her smile becomes a smirk,
  8  I go to work.
  9  Love for sale.
10  Appetizing young love for sale--
11  Love that's fresh and still unspoiled,
12  Love that's only slightly soiled.
13  Love for sale.
14  Who will buy?
15  Who would like to sample my supply?
16  Who's prepared to pay the price
17  For a trip to paradise?
18  Love for sale.
19  Let the poets pipe of love
20  In their childish way;
21  I know every type of love
22  Better far than they.
23  If you want the thrill of love,
24  I've been through the mill of love--
25  Old love, new love --
26  Every love but true love.
27  Love for sale.
28  Appetizing young love for sale.
29  If you want to buy my wares,
30  Follow me and climb the stairs.
31  Love for sale.

Porter I'M A GIGOLO

"I'M A GIGOLO"
From Wake Up and Dream (1929)
LYRICS BY COLE PORTER
(Music by Cole Porter)

    (Verse)
  1  I should like you all to know, I'm a famous gigolo.
  2  And of lavender, my nature's got just a dash in it.
  3  As I'm slightly undersexed, you will always find me next
  4  To some dowager who's wealthy rather than passionate.
  5  Go to one of those night club places
  6  And you'll find me stretching my braces
  7  Pushing ladies with lifted faces 'round the floor.
  8  But I must confess to you there are moments when I'm blue.
  9  And I ask myself whatever I do it for.

    (Refrain)
  1  I'm a flower that blooms in the winter, sinking deeper and deeper in snow.
  2  I'm a baby who has no mother but jazz.  I'm a gigolo.
  3  Ev'ry morning, when labor is over, to my sweet-scented lodgings I go,
  4  Take the glass from the shelf and look at myself.  I'm a gigolo.
  5  I get stocks and bonds from faded blondes ev'ry twenty-fifth of December.
  6  Still, I'm just a pet that men forget and only tailors remember.
  7  Yet when I see the way all the ladies treat their husbands
    who put up the dough,
  8  You cannot think me odd if then I thank God I'm a gigolo.

Porter BEGIN THE BEGUINE

"BEGIN THE BEGUINE"
From Jubilee (1935)
LYRICS BY COLE PORTER
(Music by Cole Porter)

  1  When they begin the beguine,
  2  It brings back the sound of music so tender,
  3  It brings back a night of tropical splendor,
  4  It brings back a memory ever green!
  5  I'm with you once more under the stars,
  6  And down by the shore an orchestra's playing
  7  Even the palms seem to be swaying, 
  8  When they begin the beguine!
  9  To live it again is past all endeavor,
10  Except when that tune clutches my heart,
11  And there we are, swearing to love forever,
12  And promising never, never to part!
13  What moments divine, what rapture serene,
14  Till clouds come along to disperse
15  The joys we had tasted,
16  And now when I hear people curse
17  The chance that was wasted,
18  I know but too well what they mean.
19  So, don't let them begin the beguine,
21  Let the love that was once a fire remain an ember;
22  Let it sleep like the dead desire I only remember
23  When they begin the beguine!
24  Oh yes, let them begin the beguine, make them play!
25  'Til the stars that were there before return above you,
26  'Til you whisper to me once more, "Darling, I love you!"
27  And we suddenly know what heaven we're in,
28  When they begin the beguine,
29  When they begin the beguine!

Porter YOU DO SOMETHING TO ME

"YOU DO SOMETHING TO ME"
From Fifty Million Frenchmen (1928)
LYRICS BY COLE PORTER
(Music by Cole Porter)



    (Verse)
  1  I was mighty blue -- thought my life was through
  2  'Til the heavens opened and I gazed at you.
  3  Won't you tell me, dear, why, when you appear,
  4  Something happens to me
  5  And the strangest feeling goes through me?

    (Refrain)
  1  You do something to me --
  2  Something that simply mystifies me.
  3  Tell me why should it be
  4  You have the power to hypnotize me?
  5  Let me live 'neath your spell.
  6  You do that voodoo that you do so well.
  7  For you do something to me
  8  That nobody else could do.