I'm Still Here (From 'Follies')-Cleo Laine/Jonathan Tunick

[ti:I'm Still Here (From 'Follies')] [ar:Cleo Laine] [al:Cleo Laine Sings Sondheim] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I'm Still Here (From 'Follies') - Cleo Laine/Jonathan Tunick [00:10.31]Good times and bum times [00:12.60]I've seen them all and my dear [00:15.33] [00:16.68]I'm still here [00:17.92] [00:19.72]Plush velvet sometimes [00:22.00]Sometimes just pretzels and beer [00:25.09] [00:26.26]But I'm here [00:27.29] [00:29.37]I've stuffed the dailies [00:31.66]In my shoes [00:33.09] [00:33.88]Strummed ukuleles [00:35.72] [00:36.33]Sung the blues [00:37.92] [00:38.65]Seen all my dreams disappear [00:41.33] [00:42.69]But I'm here [00:43.82] [00:48.21]I've slept in shanties [00:49.75] [00:50.59]Guest of the W P A [00:53.09] [00:54.52]But I'm here [00:55.26] [00:57.43]Danced in my scanties [00:59.34] [00:59.99]Three bucks a night was the pay [01:02.50] [01:03.83]But I'm here [01:04.73] [01:06.61]I've stood on bread lines [01:08.52] [01:09.21]With the best [01:10.44] [01:11.38]Watched while the headlines [01:13.12] [01:13.91]Did the rest [01:15.06] [01:15.88]In the Depression was I depressed [01:20.12]Nowhere near [01:21.68] [01:25.34]I met a big financier [01:27.46] [01:29.22]And I'm here [01:31.13] [01:34.61]I've been through Gandhi [01:36.20] [01:36.99]Windsor and Wally's affair [01:39.51] [01:40.78]And I'm here [01:41.80] [01:43.77]Amos and Andy [01:45.30] [01:45.90]Mah jongg and platinum hair [01:48.52] [01:49.95]And I'm here [01:50.86] [01:52.87]I got through Abie's [01:55.09]Irish Rose [01:56.43] [01:57.33]Five Dionne babies [01:59.67]Major Bowes [02:01.28] [02:01.92]Had heebie jeebies [02:04.13]For Beebe's [02:05.47]Bathysphere [02:07.03] [02:11.05]I lived through Brenda Frazier [02:14.16] [02:14.86]And I'm here [02:16.64] [02:19.50]I've gotten through Herbert [02:21.01]And J Edgar Hoover [02:23.40] [02:24.44]Gee that was fun and a half [02:27.04] [02:28.43]When you've been through Herbert [02:29.88]And J Edgar Hoover [02:32.49] [02:33.47]Anything else is a laugh [02:36.82] [02:47.36]I've been through Reno [02:48.74] [02:49.44]I've been through Beverly Hills [02:52.08] [02:53.26]And I'm here [02:54.04] [02:56.17]Reefers and vino [02:57.69] [02:58.45]Rest cures religion and pills [03:00.94] [03:02.14]And I'm here [03:03.21] [03:05.22]Been called a pinko [03:06.69] [03:07.42]Commie tool [03:08.67] [03:09.45]Got through it stinko [03:10.99] [03:11.78]By my pool [03:13.04] [03:14.00]I should have gone to an acting school [03:18.02]That seems clear [03:19.49] [03:23.04]Still someone said [03:24.53]She's sincere [03:25.68] [03:26.94]So I'm here [03:28.58] [03:32.24]Black sable one day [03:33.95] [03:34.57]Next day it goes into hock [03:36.80] [03:38.25]But I'm here [03:39.31] [03:41.10]Top billing Monday [03:42.71] [03:43.37]Tuesday you're touring in stock [03:45.72] [03:47.00]But I'm here [03:48.17] [03:50.05]First you're another [03:52.03]Sloe eyed vamp [03:54.34]Then someone's mother [03:56.21] [03:56.73]Then you're camp [03:57.99] [03:58.80]Then you career from career [04:01.57] [04:02.69]To career [04:05.15] [04:07.89]I'm almost through my memoirs [04:11.69]And I'm here [04:13.82] [04:16.16]I've gotten through [04:16.86]Hey lady aren't you whoozis [04:19.63] [04:21.21]Wow What a looker you were [04:23.84] [04:25.02]Or better yet [04:25.88]Sorry I thought you were whoozis [04:29.29] [04:30.03]Whatever happened to her [04:33.72] [04:34.65]Good times and bum times [04:36.77]I've seen them all and my dear [04:39.90] [04:40.63]I'm still here [04:42.10] [04:43.48]Flush velvet sometimes [04:45.48]Sometimes just pretzels and beer [04:48.49] [04:49.38]But I'm here [04:50.66] [04:52.35]I've run the gamut [04:53.98] [04:54.54]A to Z [04:55.78] [04:56.63]Three cheers and dammit [04:58.24] [04:58.80]C'est la vie [05:00.39] [05:00.92]I got through all of last year [05:03.42] [05:04.49]And I'm here [05:07.54] [05:09.71]Lord knows at least I was there [05:12.50] [05:13.38]And I'm here [05:16.65] [05:17.20]Look who's here [05:20.90] [05:21.63]I'm still here