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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Natasha Richardson
Vocals
Alan Cumming
Speaker
Sam Mendes
Conductor
Patrick Vaccariello
Conductor
Cabaret Orchestra (1998)
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Fred Ebb
Lyrics
Joe Masteroff
Book
John Kander
Composer
Christopher Isherwood
Based on the Work of
John Van Druten
Based on the Work of
Michael Gibson
Orchestrator
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Jay David Saks
Producer
James Nichols
Recording Engineer
Ken Hahn
Mixing Engineer
Greg Thompson
Assistant Engineer
Chuck Bailey
Assistant Engineer
Rob Marshall
Additional Producer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Ladies and gentlemen, the Kit-Cat Club is so happy
To welcome back an old friend
I give you the toast of Mayfair, Fraülein Sally Bow
[Verse 2]
What good is sitting alone in your room
Come hear the music play
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the cabaret
[Verse 3]
Put down the knitting, the book and the broom
Time for a holiday
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the cabaret
[Verse 4]
Come taste the wine
Come hear the band
Come blow a horn, start celebrating
Right this way your table's waiting
[Verse 5]
No use permitting some prophet of doom
To wipe every smile away
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the cabaret
[Verse 6]
I used to have a girlfriend known as Elsie
With whom I shared four sordid rooms in Chelsea
She wasn't what you'd call a blushing flower
As a matter of fact she rented by the hour
[Verse 7]
The day she died the neighbors came to snicker
"Well, that's 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
[Verse 8]
I think of Elsie to this very day
I remember how she turned to me and say
"What good is sitting alone in your room
Come hear the music play
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the cabaret"
[Verse 9]
Put down the knitting, the book and the broom
Time for a holiday
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the cabaret
[Verse 10]
And as for me, as for me
I made my mind up back in Chelsea
When I go
I'm going like Elsie
[Verse 11]
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