Cabaret Lyrics by Liza Minelli

Cabaret Lyrics

    What good is sitting alone
    In you 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.
    Time for a holiday.
    Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
    Come to the Cabaret.
    Come taste the wine,
    COme hear the band.
    Come blow a horn,
    Start celebrating;
    Right this way,
    Your table's waiting.

    No use permitting
    Some prophet of doom
    To wipe every smile away.
    Come hear the music play.
    Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
    Come to the Cabaret!

    I used to have a girlfriend
    Known as Elsie,
    With whom I shared
    Four sordid rooms in Chelsea
    She wasn't waht you'd call
    A blushing flower...
    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.'
    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 turn to me and say:
    'What good is sitting alone
    In you 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.
    Time for a holiday.
    Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
    Come to the Cabaret.

    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
    Isn't that a long a stay.
    Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
    Only a Cabarert, old chum
    And I love a Cabaret.

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