Stephen Sondheim - I'm Still Here (From 'Follies')

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[00:00.00]I'm Still Here (From 'Follies') - Stephen Sondheim
[00:11.15]Good times and bum times
[00:14.34]I've seen them all
[00:15.79]And my dear I'm still here
[00:21.51]Plush velvet sometimes
[00:24.19]Sometimes just pretzels and beer
[00:28.22]But I'm here
[00:31.12]I've stuffed the dailies
[00:33.88]In my shoes
[00:36.30]Strummed ukuleles
[00:38.90]Sung the blues
[00:41.30]Seen all my dreams disappear
[00:45.02]But I'm here
[00:50.94]I've slept in shanties
[00:53.49]Guest of the W P A but I'm here
[01:00.98]Danced in my scanties
[01:03.42]Three bucks a night was the pay
[01:07.76]But I'm here
[01:10.62]I've stood on bread lines
[01:13.71]With the best
[01:15.55]Watched while the
[01:16.89]Headlines did the rest
[01:20.91]In the depression was I depressed
[01:25.26]Nowhere near
[01:30.16]I met a big financier and I'm here
[01:39.33]I've been through Gandhi
[01:42.05]Windsor and Wally's affair
[01:45.90]And I'm here
[01:48.99]Amos 'n' Andy
[01:51.42]Mah-jongg and platinum hair
[01:55.31]And I'm here
[01:58.37]I got through Abie's Irish Rose
[02:02.99]Five Dionne babies Major Bowes
[02:07.60]Had heebie-jeebies for Beebe's
[02:11.31]Bathysphere
[02:16.50]I got through Shirley Temple
[02:20.08]And I'm here
[02:24.70]I've gotten through Herbert
[02:26.05]And J Edgar Hoover
[02:29.63]Gee that was fun and a half
[02:33.26]When you've been through Herbert
[02:35.19]And J Edgar Hoover
[02:38.60]Anything else is a laugh
[02:52.10]I've been through Reno
[02:54.18]I've been through Beverly Hills
[02:58.63]And I'm here
[03:01.12]Reefers and vino rest cures
[03:04.16]Religion and pills and I'm here
[03:09.65]Been called a 'Pinko' commie tool
[03:15.10]Got through it stinko by my pool
[03:19.71]I should've gone to an acting school
[03:23.01]That seems clear
[03:27.43]Still someone said "She's sincere"
[03:31.43]So I'm here
[03:36.61]Black sable one day
[03:39.04]Next day it goes into hock
[03:42.59]But I'm here
[03:45.36]Top billing Monday Tuesday
[03:48.50]You're touring in stock but I'm here
[03:54.16]First you're another sloe-eyed vamp
[03:58.46]Then someone's mother
[04:00.98]Then you're camp
[04:02.68]Then you career from career to career
[04:11.31]I'm almost through my memoirs
[04:15.19]And I'm here
[04:19.29]I've gotten through
[04:20.32]"Hey lady aren't you whoozis
[04:24.02]Wow what a looker you were"
[04:27.65]Or better yet
[04:28.55]"Sorry I thought you were whoozis
[04:33.12]Whatever happened to her "
[04:36.95]Good times and bum times
[04:38.91]I've seen 'em all
[04:40.43]And my dear I'm still here
[04:45.43]Flush velvet sometimes
[04:47.45]Sometimes just pretzels and beer
[04:51.01]But I'm here
[04:53.84]I've run the gamut A to Z
[04:57.80]Three cheers and dammit
[05:00.06]C'est la vie
[05:01.86]I got through all of last year
[05:05.48]And I'm here
[05:09.94]Lord knows at least I was there
[05:13.21]And I'm here
[05:17.08]Look who's here I'm still here