Key: B major
Verse 1
B
F#
B
F#
B
E
F#
B
What good is
D#m
F#
B
F#
sitting alone in your room?
B
D#m
B
Come hear the music play.
E
Fdim
Ddim
D#
D#m
Life is a cab aret, chum,
G#m
B
F#
come to the cabaret.
B
F#
Put down the knitting,
A#aug
B
A#
B
time for a holiday.
E
Fdim
Ddim
D#m
Life is a cab aret, old chum,
G#m
C#m
F#
come to the cabaret.
B
Em
Come taste the wine,
F#
B
Right this way, your table's waiting,
F#
B
F#
no use permitting some prophet of doom
B
D#m
B
F#m
D#dim
to wipe every smile away.
B
E
B
Fdim
Ddim
D#m
Life is a cab aret, old chum,
G#
C#m
Em
come to the cabaret.
B
F#
I used to have this girlfriend
with whom I shared four sordid
F#
B
rooms in Chelsea.
A#m
D#
G#m
call a blushing flower.
B
C#
As a matter of fact, she
F#
B
The day she died,
F#
A#aug
B
the neighbours came to snicker
Well that's what comes
F#
B
from too much pills and liquor
E
F#
A#m
D#
G#m
But when I saw her laid out like a queen
B
Fdim
B
C#m
F#
She was the happiest corpse
B
F#
B
I've ever seen seen.
A#
D#m
I think of Elsie to this very day.
G#
F#
C#
F#
I remember how she turned to me and said,
B
D#m
A#aug
F#
B
F#
A#aug
F#
What good is sit ting alone in your room?
B
D#m
B
D#dim
B
Come hear the music play.
E
Fdim
Ddim
D#m
Life is a cab aret, old chum,
G#
C#m
F#
come to the cabaret.
B
F#
B
Put down the knitting,
F#
B
the book and the broom,
A#aug
B
time for a holiday.
E
Fdim
B
D#dim
Life is a cabaret, old chum,
G#m
C#
C#m
F#
come to the cabaret.
G
B
E
B
And as for me, as for me,
G#m
C#
I made my mind up back in Chelsea.
G
F
G
I'm go ing like Elsie
C
G
Start by admitting,
C
Baug
from Credo that Zoom is
C
Gm
n't that long a stay
Dm
F
F#dim
Ebdim
E
Em
Life is a cab aret, oh chum
A
Dm
Ebdim
Em
G
Only a cabaret, oh chum
Dm
F
Can I love a cat that way?
C
C
C
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