Cabaret Lyrics - Dee Does Broadway - Dee Snider

What good is sitting 

Alone in your room? 

Come hear the music play 

Life is a cabaret, old chump 

Come to the cabaret 

Put down the knitting 

The book and the broom 

It's time for a holiday 

Life is cabaret, old chump 

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 

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No use permitting 

Some prophet of doom 

To wipe every smile away 

Come hear the music play 

Life is a cabaret, old chump 

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 

The day she died, the neighbors 

Came to snicker 

"Well, that's what comes 

From to much pills and liquor" 

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But when I saw her 

Laid out like a queen 

She was the happiest corpse 

I'd ever seen 

I think of Elsie 

To this very day 

I'd remember how 

She'd turn to me and say 

"What good is sitting 

Alone in your room? 

Come hear the music play 

Life is a cabaret, old chump 

Come to the cabaret" 

And as for me, I made up 

My mind back in Chelsea 

When I go 

I'm going like Elsie 

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