Cabaret lyrics by Liza Minnelli
=================================================================CABARET Performed by Liza Minelli Words and Music by Kander and Ebb
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What good is sit-ting
a-lone in your room?
Come hear the mu-sic play.
Life is a cab-a-ret old chum,
come to the cab-a-ret.
Put down the knit-ting, the book
and the broom.
It's time for a hol-i-day,
Life is a cab-a-ret old chum
come to the cab-a-ret.
Come taste the wine,
come hear the band,
Come blow that horn,
start cel-e-brat-ing,
right this way, your tab-les wait-ing.
What good's per-mit-ting
some pro-phet of doom,
to wipe ev-ery smile a-way.
Life is a cab-a-ret old chum,
so come to the cab-a-ret.
I used to have this girl-friend
known as El-sie,
with whom I shared four sor-did
rooms in Chel-sea.
She was-n't what you'd call
a blush-ing flow-er,
As a mat-ter of fact she rent-ed
by the ho-ur.
The day she died the neigh-bours
came to snick-er,
Well, that's what comes of too much
Pills and Liq-uor,
But when I saw her laid out
like a queen,
She was the hap-pi-est corpse
I'd ev-er seen.
I think of Els-ie to this ve-ry day,
I rem-em-ber how she'd
turn to me and say,
What's the good of sit-ting
all a-lone in your room?
Come and hear the music play.
Life is a cab-a-ret old chum,
come to the cab-a-ret.
And as for me, and as for me,
I made my mind up back in Chel-sea,
When I go, I'm going like Els-ie.
Start by ad-mit-ting
from cra-dle to tomb,
it is-n't long a stay.
Life is a cab-a-ret old chum,
It's on-ly a cab-a-ret old chum,
and I love a cab-a-ret
