Stephen Sondheim - "I'm Still Here
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Good times and bum times, I've seen them all and, my dear, I'm still here
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Plush velvet sometimes Sometimes just pretzels and beer, but I'm here
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I've stuffed the dailies in my shoes
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Strummed ukuleles, sung the blues
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Seen all my dreams disappear but I'm here.
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I've slept in shanties, guest of the W.P.A., but I'm here
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Danced in my scanties, Three bucks a night was the pay, but I'm here
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I've stood on bread lines with the best
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Watched while the headlines did the rest
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In the depression was I depressed? Nowhere near,
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I met a big financier and I'm here
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I've been through Gandhi, Windsor and Wally's affair, and I'm here
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Amos 'n' Andy, Mah-jongg and platinum hair, and I'm here
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I got through Abie's, Irish Rose, Five Dionne babies, Major Bowes
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Had heebie-jeebies for Beebe's, Bathysphere
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I got through Brenda Frazier, and I'm here
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I've gotten through Herbert and J. Edgar Hoover
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Gee, that was fun and a half
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When you've been through Herbert and J. Edgar Hoover
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Anything else is a laugh
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I've been through Reno, I've been through Beverly Hills, and I'm here.
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Reefers and vino, rest cures, religion and pills, and I'm here
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Been called a 'Pinko', commie tool, got through it stinko by my pool
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I should've gone to an acting school, that seems clear
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Still someone said, "She's sincere", so I'm here
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I've gotten through, "Hey, lady, aren't you whoozis?
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Wow, what a looker you were"
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Or better yet, "Sorry, I thought you were whoozis
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Whatever happened to her?"
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Stonewell, or wigstock, I've seen 'em all And, my dear, Wer’e still here
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Truman, Bush Junior, managed to persevere, and wer’e queer
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Liza Minnelli, Meryl Strip Elton John and Harvey Milk
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Thank god they were here, and wer’e Queer
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Lord knows, because they were there, we are here
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Show girls, illusions , I've seen 'em all And, my dear, I'm still here
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Dick dock, the sand dunes, Sometimes the front or the rear, but I'm here
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Joes’s in the morning , then to T,Spiritus after midnight, C'est la vie
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The same routine every year, and I'm here
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Lord knows, at least I was there, and I'm queer
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Look who's here, I'm still here