So What

[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER]

You say fifty marks. I say one hundred marks, a

[spoken in rhythm]

difference of fifty marks-

Why should that stand in our way?

As long as the room gets let,

the fifty that I will get

is fifty more that I had yesterday,

Ja?

When you're as old as I..

is anyone as old as I?-

What difference does it make?

An offer comes, you take.

[sings]

For the sun will rise

And the moon will set

And learn how to settle

For what you get.

It will all go on if we're here or not

So who cares? So what?

So who cares? So what?

When I was a girl,

My summers were spent by the sea.

So what?

And I had a maid

Doing all of the house-work, not me.

So what?

Now I scrub all the floors

And I wash down the walls

And I empty the chamber pot.

If it ended that way,

Then it ended that way,

And I shrug and I say:

So what?

For the sun will rise

And the moon will set

And learn how to settle

For what you get.

It will all go on if we're here or not

So who cares? So what?

So who cares? So what?

When I had a man,

My figure was dumpy and fat.

So what?

Through all of our years

He was so disappointed in that.

So what?

Now I have what he missed

And my figure is trim,

But he lies in a churchyard plot

If it wasn't to be

That he ever would see

The uncorseted me,

So what?

For the sun will rise

And the moon will set

And learn how to settle

For what you get.

It will all go on if we're here or not

So who cares? So what?

So who cares? So what?

So once I was rich

And now all my fortune is gone,

So what?

And love disappeared

And only the memory lives on,

And so what?

If I've lived through all that

(And I've lived through all that)

Fifty marks doesn't mean a lot.

If I like that you're here

(And I like that you're here)

Happy New Year, my dear,

So what?

For the sun will rise

And the moon will set

And learn how to settle

For what you get.

It will all go on if we're here or not

So who cares? So what?

So who cares? So what?

It all goes on.

So who cares? Who cares?

Who cares? So what?