Cole Porter Anything Goes Lyrics

Anything Goes Lyrics

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.

Refrain 1

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.

Refrain 2

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.

Refrain 3

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.