Follies movie - I'M STILL HERE lyrics
rate me<br>
CARLOTTA:<br>
Good times and bum times,<br>
I've seen them all and, my dear,<br>
I'm still here.<br>
Plush velvet sometimes,<br>
Sometimes just pretzels and beer,<br>
But I'm here.<br>
I've stuffed the dailies<br>
In my shoes.<br>
Strummed ukuleles,<br>
Sung the blues,<br>
Seen all my dreams disappear,<br>
But I'm here.<br>
I've slept in shanties,<br>
Guest of the W.P.A.,<br>
But I'm here.<br>
Danced in my scanties,<br>
Three bucks a night was the pay,<br>
But I'm here.<br>
I've stood on bread lines<br>
With the best,<br>
Watched while the headlines<br>
Did the rest.<br>
In the Depression was I depressed?<br>
Nowhere near.<br>
I met a big financier<br>
And I'm here.<br>
I've been through Gandhi,<br>
Windsor and Wally's affair,<br>
And I'm here.<br>
Amos 'n' Andy,<br>
Mah-jongg and platinum hair,<br>
And I'm here.<br>
I got through Abie's<br>
Irish Rose,<br>
Five Dionne babies,<br>
Major Bowes,<br>
Had heebie-jeebies<br>
For Beebe's<br>
Bathysphere.<br>
I lived through Brenda Frazier<br>
And I'm here.<br>
I've gotten through Herbert and J. Edgar Hoover,<br>
Gee, that was fun and a half.<br>
When you've been through Herbert and J. Edgar Hoover,<br>
Anything else is a laugh.<br>
I've been through Reno.<br>
I've been through Beverly Hills,<br>
And I'm here.<br>
Reefers and vino,<br>
Rest cures, religion and pills,<br>
And I'm here<br>
Been called a pinko<br>
Commie tool,<br>
Got through it stinko<br>
By my pool.<br>
I should have gone to an acting school.<br>
That seems clear,<br>
Still, someone said, "She's sincere,"<br>
So I'm here.<br>
Black sable one day.<br>
Next day it goes into hock,<br>
But I'm here.<br>
Top billing Monday,<br>
Tuesday you're touring in stock,<br>
But I'm here.<br>
First you're another<br>
Sloe-eyed vamp,<br>
Then someone's mother,<br>
Then you're camp.<br>
Then you career from career<br>
To career.<br>
I'm almost through my memoirs.<br>
And I'm here.<br>
I've gotten through "Hey, lady, aren't you whoozis?<br>
Wow! What a looker you were."<br>
Or, better yet, "Sorry, I thought you were whoozis.<br>
Whatever happened to her?"<br>
Good times and bum times,<br>
I've seen 'em all and, my dear,<br>
I'm still here.<br>
Flush velvet sometimes,<br>
Sometimes just pretzels and beer,<br>
But I'm here.<br>
I've run the gamut.<br>
A to Z.<br>
Three cheers and dammit,<br>
C'est la vie.<br>
I got through all of last year<br>
And I'm here.<br>
Lord knows, at least I was there,<br>
And I'm here!<br>
Look who's here!<br>
I'm still here!<br>
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