Cabaret Lyrics - Liza's At The Palace - Liza Minnelli

"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. 

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 a horn 

Start celebrating 

Right this way 

Your table's waiting. 

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What good's permitting 

Some prophet of doom 

To wipe every smile away. 

Life is a Cabaret, old chum 

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. 

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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. 

I think of Elsie to this very day. 

I remember how she'd turn to me and say: 

"What good is sitting all alone in you room? 

Come hear the music play. 

Life is a Cabaret, old chum 

Come to the Cabaret." 

And as for me 

I made my mind up back in Chelsea 

When I go, I'm going like Elsie. 

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 

And I love a Cabaret.