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 celebrating
Right this way your table's waiting

What good's permitting some prophet of doom
To wipe every smile away
Life is a cabaret, old chum
It's only a cabaret, old chum
And I love a cabaret!