Nowadays

[ROXIE, spoken]
Gone
It's all... gone

[ROXIE]
It's good, isn't it?
Grand, isn't it?
Great, isn't it?
Swell, isn't it?
Fun, isn't it?
Nowadays

There's men, everywhere
Jazz, everywhere
Booze, everywhere
Life, everywhere
Joy, everywhere
Nowadays

You can like the life you're livin'
You can live the life you like
You can even marry Harry
But mess around with Ike

And that's
Good, isn't it?
Grand, isn't it?
Great, isn't it?
Swell, isn't it?
Fun?

[EMCEE, spoken]
Ladies and gentlemen, the Vickers Theatre, Chicago's finest home of family entertainment, is proud to announce a first. The first time anywhere there's been an act of this nature! Not only one little lady, but two- you've read about them in the papers and now, here they are, a double header! Chicago's very own killer dillers, those two scintillating sinners, Roxy Heart and Velma Kelly!

[ROXIE and VELMA]
You can like the life you're livin'
You can live the life you like
You can even marry Harry
But mess around with Ike

And that's
Good. Isn't it?
Grand, isn't it?
Great, isn't it?
Swell, isn't it?
Fun, isn't it?

But nothing stays
In fifty years or so
It's gonna change, you know
But, oh, it's heaven
Nowadays