Cabaret

Words & Music:

John Kander & Fred Ebb

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What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play!

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Life is a cab---a--ret, old chum! Come to the cabaret!

Put down the knitting, the book and the broom, it's time for a holiday

Life is a cabaret, old chum! Come to the cabaret!

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Come taste the wine, come hear the band.

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Come blow your horn, start celebrating.

Right this way, your table's waiting!

What good's permitting some prophet of doom to wipe every smile away?

Life is a cabaret, old chum! So, come to the cabaret!

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I used to have a girlfriend known as Elsie.

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With whom I shared four sordid rooms in Chelsea.

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She wasn't what you'd call a blushing flower,

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As a matter of fact she rented by the hour.

The day she died the neighbors came to snicker.

Well, that's what comes from too much pills and liquor.

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But when I saw her laid out like a queen, she was the happiest corpse I'd ever seen!

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I think of Elsie to this very day. I remember how she'd turn to me and say:

What good is sitting all alone in your room? Come, hear the music play!

Life is a cabaret, old chum! Come to the cabaret!

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And as for me, and as for me, I made my mind up back in Chelsea:

When I go, I'm going like Elsie!

Start by admitting from cradle to tomb, it isn't that long a stay.

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Life is a cab---a--ret, old chum! It's only a cab---a--ret old chum!

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And I love a cab---a---ret!