Cabaret

What good is sitting

Alone in your room?

Come hear the music play

Life is a cabaret, 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

Come taste the wine

Come hear the band

Come blow your horn

Start celebrating

Right this way your table's waiting

What goods permitting

Some prophet of doom?

To wipe every smile away

Life is a cabaret, old chum

So come to the cabaret

I used to have this girlfriend known as Elsie

With whom I shared for sordid rooms in Chelsea

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

As a matter of fact she rented by the hour

The day she died the neighbors came to snick her

Well, that is what comes from too much pills and liquor

But when I saw her laid out like a queen

She was the happiest corpse I'd ever seen

I think of Elsie to this very day

I remember how she'd turned 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"

And as for me, huh

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

Life is a cabaret, old chum

It's only a cabaret, old chum

And I love a cabaret.