Cabaret
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[EMCEE, spoken] The Kit Kat Club is proud to welcome back an old friend. I give you, and don't you forget to bring her back once you have finished with her, the toast of Mayfair—Fräulein Sally Bowles! [SALLY] 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 Time for a holiday Life is a cabaret, old chum Come to the cabaret Come taste the wine Come hear the band Come blow your horn, start celebrating Right this way, your tablе's waiting! No use permitting some prophеt 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 neighbours 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 And I remember how she'd turn 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" 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 It isn't that long a stay? Life is a cabaret, old chum
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Credits
- Writers
- John Kander
- Fred Ebb