Elaine stritch, “are you having any fun”
from: stritch, 1956
“Hey!
Fellows with a million smackers and nervous indigestion
Rich fellows
Eating milk and crackers, I’ll ask you one question
Are you having any fun?
What you getting out of living?
Who cares for what you’ve got if you’re not having any fun?
Are you having any laughs?
Are you getting any loving?
If other people do, why can’t you? Have a little fun
After the honey’s in the cone
All the bees go out and play
Even the old gray mare down home
Has got to have hay, hey, hey!
Better have a little fun
You ain’t gonna live forever
So while you’re young and gay, still okay
Have a little fun
Why should you work and save and save?
Life is full of ifs and buts
Even the squirrels save and save
And what have they got? Nuts!
Better have a little fun
You ain’t gonna live forever
So while you’re young and gay, still okay
Have a little fun, son
Take it on the run, son
Get yourself some mone’, son
Do it all for one, son
Timmy, take your mom, son
And have
Have a little fun
”
This lady was everywhere across the American arts landscape. Acting principally, Broadway, tons of 1950’s-2000 tv. In film as an often “know it all no-nonsense female bomb shell,” and late in life as the 80 year old feminist lawyer on “Law and Order”. Her delivery of this novelty morality message from the 1939 musical “Scandals” speaks for itself. Go down the rabbit hole, This lady had a scary deep career.
Kinky Friedman
“Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder”