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 that knittin', that book and the broom It's time for a holiday Life is a cabaret, olé chum, so come to the cabaret Come taste the wine, come hear the band Yes, it's time for celebratin' Right this way, your table's waitin' No use permittin' some prophet of doom To wip eevery smiles away Life is a cabaret, old chum, so come to the cabaret Interlude: Come taste the wine, come hear the band Yes, it's time for celebratin' Right this way, your table's waitin' No thought for admittin' the Prince of doom Yes, it is no longer stayin' Life is a cabaret, old chum, only a cabaret, old chum So come to the cabaret