Anything Goes (Live At The Crescendo)

Anything Goes (Live At The Crescendo) - Ella Fitzgerald

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

In olden days a

Glimpse of stockings

Was looked on as

Something shocking

Now heaven knows

Anything goes

Good authors too

Who once knew better words

Now only use four letter words

Writing prose anything goes

The world has gone mad today

And goods bad today

And black's white today

And day's night today

When most guys today

That women prize today

Are just silly gigolos

So though I'm not

A great romancer

I know that

I'm bound to answer

When you propose

Anything goes

In olden days a

Glimpse of stockings

Was looked on as

Something shocking

Now heaven knows

Anything goes

Good authors too

Who once knew better words

Now only use four letter words

Writing prose anything goes

The world has gone mad today

And goods bad today

And black's white today

And day's night today

When most guys today

That women prize today

Are just silly gigolos

So though I'm not

A great romancer

I know that

I'm bound to answer

When you propose

Anything goes

Anything goes