Follies - I'm Still Here lyrics

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Good times and bum times<br />

I've seen them all and my dear I'm still here<br />

Plush velvet sometimes<br />

Sometimes just pretzels and beer but I'm here<br />

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I've stuffed the dailies in my shoes<br />

Strummed ukuleles, sung the blues<br />

Seen all my dreams disappear but I'm here<br />

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I've slept in shanties<br />

Guest of the W.P.A. but I'm here<br />

Danced in my scanties<br />

Three bucks a night was the pay but I'm here<br />

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I've stood on bread lines<br />

With the best, watched while the headlines<br />

Did the rest in the depression was I depressed?<br />

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Nowhere near<br />

I met a big financier and I'm here<br />

I've been through Gandhi<br />

Windsor and Wally's affair and I'm here<br />

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Amos and Andy<br />

Mah jongg and platinum hair and I'm here<br />

I got through Abie's, Irish Rose, five Dionne babies<br />

Major Bowes had heebie jeebies for Beebe's bathysphere<br />

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I lived through Brenda Frazier 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 />

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I've been through Reno<br />

I've been through Beverly Hills and I'm here<br />

Reefers and vino, rest cures<br />

Religion and pills and I'm here<br />

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Been called a Pinko, commie tool<br />

Got through it stinko by my pool<br />

I should have gone to an acting school<br />

That seems clear<br />

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Still, someone said, "She's sincere"<br />

So I'm here black sable one day<br />

Next day it goes into hock but I'm here<br />

Top billing Monday<br />

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Tuesday you're touring in stock but I'm here<br />

First you're another sloe-eyed vamp<br />

Then someone's mother, then you're camp<br />

Then you career from career to career<br />

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I'm almost through my memoirs 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 />

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Whatever happened to her, good times and bum times<br />

I've seen 'em all and, my dear, I'm still here<br />

Flush velvet sometimes<br />

Sometimes just pretzels and beer, but I'm here<br />

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I've run the gamut A to Z<br />

Three cheers and dammit, c'est la vie<br />

I got through all of last year and I'm here<br />

Lord knows, at least I was there, and I'm here<br />

Look who's here, I'm still here