Cabaret [that's What Life Is All About] Lyrics - Bing Crosby

What good is sitting alone in your room? 

Come hear the music play 

Life is a cabaret, old chum 

Come to the cabaret 

Put down the knitting 

The book, and the broom 

Time for a holiday 

Life is a cabaret, old chum 

Come to the cabaret 

Come taste the wine 

Come hear the band 

Come blow your horn 

Start celebrating, right this way 

Your table's waiting 

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No use permitting 

Some prophet of doom 

To wipe every smile away 

Life is a cabaret, old chum 

So come to the cabaret 

I used to have this girlfriend 

Known as Elsie 

With whom I shared four 

Sordid rooms in Chelsea 

She wasn't what you'd call 

A blushing flower 

As a matter of fact 

She rented by the hour 

The day she died 

The neighbors came to snicker 

"Well, that's what comes from 

Too much pills and liquor" 

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But when I saw her laid out like a queen 

She was the happiest corpse I'd ever seen 

I think of Elsie to this very day 

I remember how she'd turned to me and say 

"What good is sitting alone in your room?" 

Come hear the music play 

Life is a cabaret, old chum 

Come to the cabaret 

And as for me, as for me 

I made my mind up back in Chelsea 

When I go I'm going like Elsie 

Start by admitting from cradle to tomb 

Isn't that long a stay? 

Life is a cabaret, old chum 

It's only a cabaret, old chum 

And I love the cabaret