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 your horn
Start celebratin'
Right this way
Your table's waitin'
What good's permitting
Some prophet of doom
To wipe
Every smile away
Life is a cabaret
Old chum
So come to the cabaret
What good is sitting
Alone in your room
Come hear
The music play
Life is a cabaret
Old chum
Come to the cabaret
Come taste the wine
Come hear the band
Come blow your horn
Start celebratin'
Right this way
Your table's waitin'
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