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BROADWAY SOUNDTRACK - Jill Haworth, w./orchestra directed by Don Walker: "Cabaret" (1966)
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Jill Haworth
Jill Haworth
Vocals
Cabaret Original Broadway Cast
Cabaret Original Broadway Cast
Performer
Cabaret Orchestra (1998)
Cabaret Orchestra (1998)
Orchestra
Harold Hastings
Harold Hastings
Music Director
Bert Convy
Bert Convy
Vocals
Chorus
Chorus
Chorus
Jack Gilford
Jack Gilford
Vocals
Joel Grey
Joel Grey
Vocals
Lotte Lenya
Lotte Lenya
Vocals
Mary Ehara
Mary Ehara
Vocals
Rita O'Connor
Rita O'Connor
Vocals
Robert Sharp
Robert Sharp
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Fred Ebb
Fred Ebb
Lyrics
Joe Masteroff
Joe Masteroff
Book
John Kander
John Kander
Composer
Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood
Based on the Work of
John Van Druten
John Van Druten
Based on the Work of
Don Walker
Don Walker
Orchestrator
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Goddard Lieberson
Goddard Lieberson
Producer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
What good is sitting alone in your room?
Come here the music play
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the cabaret
[Verse 2]
Put down the knitting
The book and the broom
Time for a holiday
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the cabaret
[Verse 3]
Come taste the wine
Come hear the band
Come blow your horn
Start celebrating
Right this way
Your table's waiting
[Verse 4]
No use permitting
Some prophet of doom
To wipe every smile away
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the cabaret
[Verse 5]
I used to have a girlfriend know as Elsie
With whom I shared four sorted rooms in Chelsea
She wasn't what you'd call a blushing flower
As a matter of fact, she rented by the hour
[Verse 6]
On the day she died, the neighbors came to snicker
Well, that's what comes of too much pills and liquor
But when I saw her laid up like a queen
She was the happiest corpse I'd ever seen
[Verse 7]
I think of Elsie to this very day
I remember how she'd turn to me and say
What good is sitting alone in your room?
Come here the music play
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the cabaret
[Verse 8]
Put down the knitting
The book and the broom
Time for a holiday
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the cabaret
[Verse 9]
And as for me
As for me
I made my mind up back in Chelsea
When I go, I'm goin' like Elsie
[Verse 10]
Start by admitting
From cradle to tomb
Isn't that long a stay?
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Only a cabaret, old chum
And I love a cabaret
Written by: Fred Ebb, John Kander

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