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Cabaret
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Cabaret was released on January 1, 1966 by Masterworks Broadway as a part of the album Cabaret (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
January 1, 1966
LabelMasterworks Broadway
LanguageEnglish
BPM95
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
What good is sitting alone in your room?
Come here the music play
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the cabaret
[Verse 2]
Put down the knitting
The book and the broom
Time for a holiday
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the cabaret
[Verse 3]
Come taste the wine
Come hear the band
Come blow your horn
Start celebrating
Right this way
Your table's waiting
[Verse 4]
No use permitting
Some prophet of doom
To wipe every smile away
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the cabaret
[Verse 5]
I used to have a girlfriend know as Elsie
With whom I shared four sorted rooms in Chelsea
She wasn't what you'd call a blushing flower
As a matter of fact, she rented by the hour
[Verse 6]
On the day she died, the neighbors came to snicker
Well, that's what comes of too much pills and liquor
But when I saw her laid up like a queen
She was the happiest corpse I'd ever seen
[Verse 7]
I think of Elsie to this very day
I remember how she'd turn to me and say
What good is sitting alone in your room?
Come here the music play
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the cabaret
[Verse 8]
Put down the knitting
The book and the broom
Time for a holiday
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the cabaret
[Verse 9]
And as for me
As for me
I made my mind up back in Chelsea
When I go, I'm goin' like Elsie
[Verse 10]
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
Written by: Fred Ebb, John Kander
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