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 table's waiting.



No use permitting some prophet of doom

To wipe every smile away.

Life is a Cabaret old chum,

Come to the Cabaret.



Life is a game which must be played,

Come on along, start celebrating,

Set your heart a-palpitating.



Start by admitting from cradle to tomb,

It isn't that long a stay.

Life is a Cabaret, old chum,

Only a Cabaret old chum,

So come to the Cabaret!





words & music John Kander & Fred Ebb

from Broadway show "Cabaret"

Transcribed: Dilly