Intro:
B5 C/B5 C#/F# C#/F#m
Riff 1 B A G# F# E
Riff 2 E D C# B A
[Verse 1]
A E7 A E7
What good is sitting alone in your room?
A AMaj7 A7
Come hear the music play
[Chorus]
D6 Ebdim7 C#m F#7
Life is a cab - a - ret, old chum
Bm7 E7 A
Come to the Cab - a - ret
[Verse 2]
A E7 A E7
Put down the knitting, the book and the broom
A AMaj7 A7
It's time for a hol-i-day
[Chorus]
D6 Ebdim7 C#m F#7
Life is a cab - a - ret, old chum
Bm7 E7 A
Come to the Cab - a - ret
[Bridge]
Dm
Come taste the wine
A
Come hear the band
F#m F#m7
Come blow a horn, start celebrating
E7
Right this way, your table's waiting
[Verse 3]
A E7 A E7
What good's permitting some prophet of doom
A AMaj7 A7
To wipe every smile away
[Chorus]
D6 Ebdim7 C#m F#7
Life is a cab - a - ret, old chum
Bm7 E7 A
Come to the Cab - a - ret
[Middle section]
A E+ A
I used to have this girlfriend known as Elsie
A E+ A
With whom I shared four sordid rooms in Chelsea
E7 F#m
She wasn't what you'd call a blushing flower
B E
As a matter of fact she rented by the hour
A E+ A
The day she died the neighbors came to snicker
A E+ A
"Well, that's what comes from too much pills and liquor."
E7 F#m
But when I saw her laid out like a Queen
D E A
She was the happiest corpse I'd ever seen
G#7 C#m
I think of Elsie to this very day
B E
I remember how she'd turn to me and say
[Verse 4]
A E7 A E7
What good is sitting alone in your room?
A AMaj7 A7
Come hear the music play
[Chorus]
D6 Ebdim7 C#m F#7
Life is a cab - a - ret, old chum
Bm7 E7 A
Come to the Cab - a - ret
[Bridge]
Dm A
And as for me, as for me
F#m F#m7 B7
I made my mind up back in Chelsea
E7 F#7
When I go, I'm going like Elsie
[Verse 5]
B F#7 B F#7
Start by admitting from cradle to tomb
B Bm7 B7
It isn't that long a stay
[Chorus]
E Fdim7 Ebm G#7
Life is a cab - a - ret, old chum
E Fdim7 Ebm G#7
It's only a cab - a - ret, old chum
C#m7 F#7 B
And I love a Cab - a - ret