ARTIST: John Kander and Fred Ebb
TITLE: Cabaret
Lyrics and Chords


[Cabaret]

[ Abdim7 = ; A+ =  ]

What good is sitting alone in your room
Come hear the music play
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the cabaret

/ D A7 D A7 / D Dmaj7 D7 - / G Abdim7 F#m B7 / Em7 A7 D - /

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 your horn, start celebrating
   Right this way, your table's waiting

   / Gm - D - / Bm Bm7 / A7 - /

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 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

/ D A+ D - / / A7 - Bm - / E - A - /

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

... / G A D - /

I think of Elsie to this very day
I remember how she'd turn to me and say

/ C#7 - F#m - / E - A - /

What good is sitting all alone in your 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 am 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 cabaret old chum
And I love a cabaret

... / G Abdim7 F#m B7 / / Em7 A7 D - /

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