[Chorus] :
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 a 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 !

[Chorus]

And as for me, 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
Isn't that a long a stay.
Life is a cabaret, old chum,
Only a cabaret, old chum
And I love a cabaret.