I'm Still Here

I'm Still Here - The London Theatre Orchestra

Good times and bum times

I've seen them all and my dear

I'm still here

Plush velvet sometimes

Sometimes just pretzels and beer

But I'm here

I've stuffed the dailies

In my shoes

Strummed ukuleles

Sung the blues

Seen all my dreams disappear

But I'm here

I've slept in shanties

Guest of the W P A

I'm here

Danced in my scanties

Three bucks a night was the pay

But I'm here

I've stood on bread lines

With the best

Watched while the headlines

Did the rest

In the Depression was I depressed

Nowhere near

I met a big financier

So I'm here

I've been through Gandhi

Windsor and Wally's affair

And I'm here

Amos 'n' Andy

Mah-jongg and platinum hair

And I'm here

I got through Abie's

Irish Rose

Five Dionne babies

Major Bowes

Had heebie-jeebies

For Beebe's

Bathysphere

I lived through Shirley Temple

And I'm here

I've gotten through Herbert and J Edgar Hoover

Gee that was fun and a half

When you've been through Herbert and J Edgar Hoover

Anything else is a laugh

I've been through Reno

I've been through Beverly Hills

And I'm here

Reefers and vino

Rest cures religion and pills

And I'm here

Been called a pinko

Commie tool

Got through it stinko

By my pool

I should have gone to an acting school

That seems clear

Still someone said "She's sincere "

So I'm here

Black sable one day

Next day it goes into hock

I'm here

Top billing Monday

Tuesday you're touring in stock

I'm here

First you're another

Sloe-eyed vamp

Then someone's mother

Then you're camp

Then you career from career

To career

I'm almost through my memoirs

And I'm here

I've gotten through "Hey lady aren't you whoozis

Wow What a looker you were "

Or better yet "Sorry I thought you were whoozis

Whatever happened to her "

Good times and bum times

I've seen 'em all and my dear

I'm still here

Flush velvet sometimes

Sometimes just pretzels and beer

But I'm here

I've run the gamut

A to Z

Three cheers and dammit

C'est la vie

I got through all of last year

And I'm here

Lord knows at least I was there

And I'm here

Look who's here

I'm still here