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 a horn, Start celebrating: Right this way, Your table's waiting.
What good's 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 a girlfriend Known as Elsie, With whom I shared A 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 all alone in you room? Come hear the music play. Life is a Cabaret, old chum, Come to the Cabaret.
And as for me, 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 Cabarert, old chum And I love a Cabaret.