Nowadays

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?

Ladies and gentlemen, the Vickers theater

Chicago's finest finest home of family entertainment

Is proud to announce a first...

The first time anywhere

There has 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 own killer-dealers,

Those two scintillating sinners:

Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly!

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

• Artist:Chicago (Musical)
• Album:Chicago: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture (2002)