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