Songtexte I'm Still Here - Millicent Martin

Good times and bum times
I've seen them all and, my dear
I'm still here

Plush velvet sometimes
Sometimes just pretzels and beer
But I'm here

I've stuffed the dailies in my shoes
Strummed ukuleles, sung the blues
Seen all my dreams disappear
But I'm here

I've slept in shanties
Guest of the W.P.A
But I'm here
Danced in my scanties
Three bucks a night was the pay
But I'm here

I've stood on breadlines with the best
Watched while the headlines did the rest
In the Depression, was I depressed?
Nowhere near
I met a big financier
And I'm here!

I've been through Gandhi
Windsor and Wally's affair
And I'm here
Amos and Andy, Mah johng and platinum hair
And I'm here

I got through Abie's Irish Rose
Five Dionne babies, Major Bowes
Had heebie-jeebies for Phoebe's Bathysphere
I got through Shirley Temple
And I'm here

I got through Herbert and J. Edgar Hoover
Gee, that was fun and a half
When you've been through Herbert and J. Edgar Hoover
Anything else is laugh

I've been through Reno
I've been through Beverly Hills
And I'm here
Reefers and vino
Rescuers, religion and pills
And I'm here

Been called a "pinko", "Commie tool"
Got through it, stinko, by my pool
I should've gone to an acting school
That seems clear
Still, someone said, "She's sincere"
So I'm here

Black sable one day, next day it goes into hock
But I'm here
Top billing Monday; Tuesday you're touring in stock
But I'm here
First you're another sloe-eyed vamp
Then someone's mother
Then you're camp
Then you career from career to career
I'm almost through my memoirs
And I'm here

I've gotten through
"Hey lady, aren't you - ah - whosis?
Wow, what a looker you were!"
Or better yet
"Sorry, I thought you were whosis
Whatever happened to her?"

Good times, bum times
I've seen 'em all and, my dear
I'm still here

Plush velvet sometimes
Sometimes just pretzels and beer
But I'm here

I've run the gamut, A to Z
Three cheers and, dammit
C'est la vie!
I got through all of last year
And I'm here
Lord knows at least I was there
And I'm here!
Look who's here
I'm still here!