Anything Goes
To be sung with Ethel Merman to the Cole Porter tune
"Anything Goes"
(In olden days a glimpse of stocking...)

In olden days cock-of-the-walking
   by politicians was sometimes shocking,
Now heaven knows,
Most anything goes.

Bush VPs without a gift for words
   could only spell four-letter words
For low blows.
Now anything goes.

The world is put off today
That Ashcroft today has gone soft today
And hasn't scoffed today
As Mr. Vice-today-at-any-price-today
Plays at being bellicose.

So though Scalia draws the curtain,
We can be certain who Halliburton owes,
Now that anything goes.

Music by Cole Porter
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
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6/27/04