Song :
F
Intro :
Bb Faug Bb Faug
What good is sitting alone in your room?
Bb Bbmaj7 Bb7
Come hear the music play
Chorus :
Eb6 Edim7 Dm G7
Life is a cab - a - ret, old chum
Cm7 F7 Bb
Come to the Cab - a - ret
Bb Faug Bb Faug
Put down the knitting, the book and the broom
Bb Bbmaj7 Bb7
It's time for a hol-i-day
Chorus :
Eb6 Edim7 Dm G7
Life is a cab - a - ret, old chum
Cm7 F7 Bb
Come to the Cab - a - ret
Bridge :
Ebm
Come taste the wine
Bb
Come hear the band
Gm Gm7
Come blow a horn, start celebrating
F7
Right this way, your table's waiting
Bb Faug Bb Faug
What good's permitting some prophet of doom
Bb Bbmaj7 Bb7
To wipe every smile away
Chorus :
Eb6 Edim7 Dm G7
Life is a cab - a - ret, old chum
Cm7 F7 Bb
Come to the Cab - a - ret
Middle section :
Bb Faug Bb
I used to have this girlfriend known as Elsie
Bb Faug Bb
With whom I shared four sordid rooms in Chelsea
F7 Gm
She wasn't what you'd call a blushing flower
C F
As a matter of fact she rented by the hour
Bb Faug Bb
The day she died the neighbors came to snicker
Bb Faug Bb
"Well, that's what comes from too much pills and liquor."
F7 Gm
But when I saw her laid out like a Queen
Eb F Bb
She was the happiest corpse I'd ever seen
A7 Dm
I think of Elsie to this very day
C F
I remember how she'd turn to me and say
Bb Faug Bb Faug
What good is sitting alone in your room?
Bb Bbmaj7 Bb7
Come hear the music play
Chorus :
Eb6 Edim7 Dm G7
Life is a cab - a - ret, old chum
Cm7 F7 Bb
Come to the Cab - a - ret
Bridge :
Ebm Bb
And as for me, as for me
Gm Gm7 C7
I made my mind up back in Chelsea
F7 G7
When I go, I'm going like Elsie
C Gaug C Gaug
Start by admitting from cradle to tomb
C Cm7 C7
It isn't that long a stay
Chorus :
F Gbdim7 Em A7
Life is a cab - a - ret, old chum
F Gbdim7 Em A7
It's only a cab - a - ret, old chum
Dm7 G7 C
And I love a Cab - a - ret
