Key: A major
Verse 1
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B
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A
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What good is sit
Baug
Em
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Baug
ting alone in your room?
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Bbdim
D#
G#m
C#
Life is a cabaret, oh charm,
C#m
F#m
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come to the cabaret.
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Baug
the book and the broom,
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D#
G#m
C#
Life is a cabaret, old chum,
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come to the cabaret.
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Am
Come taste the wine,
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come hear the band,
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Sitting right this way, our table's waiting
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Baug
No use permitting some
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Bbdim
To wipe every smile away
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Bbdim
G#m
Life is a cabaret, Elsham,
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Bsus4
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Caug
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Caug
come to the cab aret
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I used to have a girlfriend known as Elsie
With whom I shared four
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sordid rooms in Chelsea
call a blushing flower,
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as a matter of fact she
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rented by the hour.
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The day she died the neigh
well that's the comms of
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too much pills and liquor.
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But when I saw her laid
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C#m
out like a queen,
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she was the happiest corpse
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I'd ever seen.
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G#m
I think of Elsie to this very day,
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I remember how she'd
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turn to me and say,
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What good is sitting alone
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in your room
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Come hear the music play
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Bbdim
G#m
C#
Life is a cabaret, old chap
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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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G#m
Life is a cabaret, oh chum,
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F#m
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come to the cabaret.
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And as for me, as for me,
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F#
I've made my mind up back in Chelsea
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When I go, I'm going like LSA
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Caug
from cradle to tomb,
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G#dim
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Life is a cabaret, old chum,
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a -ray, a cabaret,
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old chum,
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and I love a cab aret! you
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