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