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Artist: Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie
Canonical path: /ella-fitzgerald-e-count-basie/anything-goes
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Anything Goes
Read Anything Goes lyrics by Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Anything Goes
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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 stocking
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 good's 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 you're bound to answer
When you propose
Anything goes
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Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie performs "Anything Goes", and this lyric page sits inside the Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie catalog on LyroVerse.
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