What good is sitting along in your room?
Come hear the mu-sic play;
Life is a cab-a-ret, old chum,
Come to the cab-a-ret____


Come taste the wine,
Come hear the band,
Come blow the horn, start cel-e-brat-ing,
Right this way, your table’s waiting


No use per-mitting some prophet of doom
to wipe ev-’ry smile a-way
Life is a cab-a-ret, old chum ...
Come to the cab-a-ret___
Put down the knit-ting, the book and the broom
Time for a hol-i-day___
Life is a cab-a-ret, old chum,
Come to the cab-a-ret___ 


Come taste the wine,
Come hear the band,
Come blow the horn, start cel-e-brat-ing,
Right this way, your table’s waiting


Start by ad-mit-ting from cra-dle to tomb
is-n’t that long a stay...
Only a cab-a-ret, old chum,
so come to__the cab-a-ret___