Anything Goes - Cole Porter with Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks

[00:12]Times have changed
[00:16]And we've often rewound the clock
[00:19]Since the Puritans got a shock
[00:22]When they landed on Plymouth Rock.
[00:25]If today
[00:29]Any shock they should try to stem
[00:31]'Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock,
[00:34]Plymouth Rock would land on them.
[00:38]In olden days, a glimpse of stocking
[00:42]Was looked on as something shocking.
[00:44]But now, God knows,
[00:47]Anything goes.
[00:50]Good authors too who once knew better words
[00:54]Now only use four-letter words
[00:57]Writing prose.
[01:00]Anything goes.
[01:03]If driving fast cars you like,
[01:05]If low bars you like,
[01:06]If old hymns you like,
[01:08]If bare limbs you like,
[01:10]If Mae West you like,
[01:11]Or me undressed you like,
[01:13]Why, nobody will oppose.
[01:16]When ev'ry night the set that's smart is in-
[01:20]Truding in nudist parties in
[01:22]Studios.
[01:25]Anything goes.
[01:29]When Missus Ned McLean (God bless her)
[01:32]Can get Russian reds to \"yes\" her,
[01:35]Then I suppose
[01:38]Anything goes.
[01:41]When Rockefeller still can hoard en-
[01:45]Ough money to let Max Gordon
[01:47]Produce his shows,
[01:50]Anything goes.
[01:53]The world has gone mad today
[01:56]And good's bad today,
[01:57]And black's white today,
[01:59]And day's night today,
[02:01]And that gent today
[02:02]You gave a cent today
[02:03]Once had several chateaux.
[02:07]When folks who still can ride in jitneys
[02:10]Find out Vanderbilts and Whitneys
[02:12]Lack baby clo'es,
[02:15]Anything goes.
[02:19]If Sam Goldwyn can with great conviction
[02:23]Instruct Anna Sten in diction,
[02:25]Then Anna shows
[02:28]Anything goes.
[02:31]When you hear that Lady Mendl standing up
[02:35]Now turns a handspring landing up-
[02:38]On her toes,
[02:41]Anything goes.
[02:44]Just think of those shocks you've got
[02:45]And those knocks you've got
[02:47]And those blues you've got
[02:49]From that news you've got
[02:50]And those pains you've got
[02:52](If any brains you've got) （
[02:54]From those little radios.
[02:56]So Missus R., with all her trimmin's,
[03:00]Can broadcast a bed from Simmons
[03:03]'Cause Franklin knows
[03:06]Anything goes.