Cabaret

(C)What good is (G7)sitting (C)alone in your (G7)room?

(C)Come hear the (G7)music (C7)play.

(F)Life is a (F#dim)(Em7)cabaret, old (A7)chum,

(Dm7)come to the (G7)(C)cabaret.

(C)Put down the (G7)knitting, the (C)book and the (G7)broom.

(C)Time for a (G7)(C7)holiday.

(F)Life is a (F#dim)(Em7)cabaret, old (A7)chum,

(Dm7)come to the (G7)(C)cabaret.

(C)ret. Come taste the (Fm)wine,

come hear the (C)band.

Come blow a (Am)horn, start (A)(D7)celebrating:

(G7)Right this way your table's waiting.

(C)No use (G7)permitting some (C)prophet of (G7)doom to (C)wipe ev'ry smile (F#dim)a (Gm7)way.

(F)Life is a (F#dim)(Em7)cabaret, old chum,

(Dm7)come to the (Fm)(Caug)cabaret!

(C7)I (C)used to have a (G7)girlfriend known as (C)Elsie,

with whom I shared four (G7)sordid rooms in (C)Chelsea.

(C7)She (F6)wasn't what you'd (Bm7)call a (E7)blushing (Am)flower.

As a (Am7)matter of fact, she (D7)rented by the (G7)hour.

The (C)day she died the (G7)neighbors came to (C)snicker:

"Well, that's what comes of (G7)too much pills and (C)liquor."

(C7)But (F6)when I saw her (Bm7)laid out (E7)like a (Am)queen,

she was the (Dm7)happiest corpse I'd (G7)ever (C)seen.

I (B7)think of Elsie to this very (Em)day.

(A7)I (D7)remember how she'd turn to me and (G7)say:

(C)What is (G7)sitting (C)alone in your (G7)room?

(C)Come hear the (Cmaj7)music (C7)play.

(F)Life is a (F#dim)(Em7)cabaret, old (A7)chum,

(Dm7)come to the (G7)(C)cabaret.

(C)Put down the (G7)knitting, the (C)book and the (G7)broom.

(C)Time for a (G7)(C7)holiday.

(F)Life is a (F#dim)(Em7)cabaret, old (A7)chum,

(Dm7)come to the (G7)(C)cabaret."

And as for (Fm7)(Bb7)me, as for (Em7)(Am)me,

I made my mind up back in (D7)Chelsea (G7)when I go I'm going like Elsie.

(C)Start (G7)admitting, from (C)cradle to (G7)tomb (C)isn't that long a (Gm7)stay.

(F)Life is a (F#dim)(Em7)cabaret, old (A7)chum,

(Dm7)only a (D#dim)(Em7)cabaret, old chum, and (Dm7)I love a (F)(Fm)(C)cabaret!