{"id":66,"date":"2021-05-10T01:24:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T01:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=66"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:58:21","slug":"aint-we-got-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/aint-we-got-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Ain&#8217;t We Got Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\"> by Egan and Kahn &#8211; Key of A<\/span> <input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea48a1622ad2059156111' value='69ea48a1622ad2059156111'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea48a1622ad2059156111' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea48a1622ad2059156111' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea48a1622ad2059156111' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea48a1622ad2059156111' ><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\"><em>Ain&#8217;t We Got Fun<\/em> is a popular foxtrot published in 1921 with music by Richard A. Whiting, lyrics by Raymond B. Egan and Gus Kahn. This became a big hit for Bing Crosby.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">It was first performed in 1920 in the Fanchon and Marco revue Satires of 1920, then moved into vaudeville and recordings. The song and its jaunty response to poverty and its promise of fun (&#8220;Every morning \/ Every evening,&#8221; and &#8220;In the meantime, \/ In between time&#8221;) have become symbolic of the Roaring Twenties, and it appears in some of the major literature of the decade, including The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and in Dorothy Parker&#8217;s award-winning short story of 1929, <em>Big Blonde.<\/em> The song also contains variations on the phrase &#8220;The rich get richer and the poor get poorer&#8221; (substituting, e.g., &#8220;children&#8221; for &#8220;poorer&#8221;); though this phrase predates the song, its use increased with the song&#8217;s popularity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[C]<\/span> Ev'ry morning, ev'ry evening - <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[Dm]<\/span> Ain't we got <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[G]<\/span> fun? - - - <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[G7]<\/span> Not much money, oh but honey - <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[C]<\/span> Ain't we got <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[C7]<\/span> fun?<\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/chords\/tenor\/tenor-b7.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"127\" align=\"left\" \/>[F]<\/span> The rent's unpaid dear - <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[C]<\/span> And we haven't a bus - - - <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[Em]<\/span> But smiles were made dear -<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> [B7]<\/span> For people like us<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[C]<\/span> In the Winter in the Summer -<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> [Dm]<\/span> Don't we have <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[G]<\/span> fun - - - <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[G7]<\/span> Times are bum &amp; getting bummer <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[C]<\/span> still we have<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> [C7]<\/span> fun<\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[F]<\/span> There's nothing <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[E7]<\/span> surer:  - - - <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[Am]<\/span> The rich get rich and the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[Dm]<\/span> poor get poorer   - - -   <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[C]<\/span> In the meantime, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[G7]<\/span> in between time    <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[F]<\/span> Ain't <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[G]<\/span> we got<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> [C]<\/span> fun?  <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[G]<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\nVIOLIN SOLO to first and second verse\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[C]<\/span> Ev'ry morning, ev'ry evening - <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[Dm]<\/span> Ain't we got<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> [G]<\/span> fun? - - - <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[G7]<\/span> Not much money, oh but honey - <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[C]<\/span> Ain't we got <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[C7]<\/span> fun?<\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[F]<\/span> Our rent's unpaid dear - <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[C]<\/span> We haven't a bus - - - <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[Em]<\/span> But smiles were made dear - - - <\/strong><strong>- <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[B7]<\/span> For people like us<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[C]<\/span> Landlords mad &amp; getting madder -  <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[Dm]<\/span> Ain't we got <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[G]<\/span> fun? - - - <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[G7]<\/span> Times are bad &amp; getting badder - <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[C]<\/span> Still we have <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[C7]<\/span> fun<\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[F]<\/span> There's nothing   <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[E7] <\/span>\u00a0surer:  - - -  <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[Am]<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The rich get rich and the<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[Dm]<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">poor get laid off   - - -<\/span>   <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[C]<\/span> In the meantime, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[G7]<\/span> in between time -   <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[F]<\/span> Ain't <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[G]<\/span> we got<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> [C]<\/span> fun?  <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[C]<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Egan and Kahn &#8211; Key of A [C] Ev&#8217;ry morning, ev&#8217;ry evening &#8211; [Dm] Ain&#8217;t we got [G] fun? &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; [G7] Not much money, oh but honey &#8211; [C] Ain&#8217;t we got [C7] fun? 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