Cabaret- Cabaret Lyrics

SALLY

What good is sitting alone in you room?

Come here 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

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 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 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 here 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...

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 long a stay

Life is a cabaret, old chum

Only a cabaret, old chum

And I love a cabaret!