Jill Haworth - Cabaret lyrics
rate meWhat good is sitting alone in your room?<br />
Come hear the music play<br />
Life is a cabaret, old chum<br />
Come to the cabaret<br />
<br />
Put down the knitting<br />
The book and the broom<br />
Time for a holiday<br />
Life is cabaret, old chum<br />
Come to the cabaret<br />
<br />
Come taste the wine<br />
Come hear the band<br />
Come blow your horn<br />
Start celebrating<br />
Right this way<br />
Your table's waiting<br />
<br />
No use permitting<br />
Poem prophet of doom<br />
To wipe every smile away<br />
Come hear the music play<br />
Life is a cabaret, old chum<br />
Come to the cabaret!<br />
<br />
I used to have a girlfriend<br />
known as Elsie<br />
With whom I shared<br />
Four sordid rooms in Chelsea<br />
<br />
She wasn't what you'd call<br />
A blushing flower<br />
As a matter of fact<br />
She rented by the hour<br />
<br />
The day she died the neighbors<br />
Came to snicker<br />
Well, that's what comes<br />
From to much pills and liquor<br />
<br />
But when I saw her laid out like a queen<br />
She was the happiest corpse<br />
I'd ever seen<br />
<br />
I think of Elsie to this very day<br />
I'd remember, how'd she turn to me and say<br />
What good is sitting alone in your room?<br />
Come hear the music play<br />
Life is a cabaret, old chum<br />
Come to the cabaret<br />
<br />
And as for me<br />
I made up my mind back in Chelsea<br />
When I go, I'm going like Elsie<br />
<br />
Start by admitting<br />
From cradle to tomb<br />
Isn't that long a stay?<br />
Life is a cabaret, old chum<br />
Only a cabaret, old chum<br />
And I love a cabaret!
