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Patti Page
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What good is sitting alone in your room?
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Come hear the music play
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Life is a cabaret, old chum,
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Come to the cabaret.
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Put down the knitting, the book, and the broom.
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Time for a holiday.
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Life is a cabaret, old chum,
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Come to the cabaret.
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Come taste the wine,
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Come hear the band,
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Come blow your horn,
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Start celebrating,
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Right this way,
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Your table's waiting.
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No use permitting
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Some prophet of doom to wipe every smile away
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Life is a cabaret, old chum,
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So come to the cabaret!
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I used to have this girlfriend known as Elsie,
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With whom I shared four sorbid rooms in Chelsea.
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She wasn't what you'd call
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A blushing flower.
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As a matter of fact
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She rented by the hour.
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The day she died the neighbours came to snicker
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"Well, that's what comes from
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Too much pills and liquor."
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But when I saw her laid 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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I think of Elsie to this very day
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I remember how she'd turned to me and say:
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"What good is sitting alone in your room?
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Come hear the music play
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Life is a cabaret, old chum,
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Come to the cabaret.
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And as for me,
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As for me
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I made my mind up, back in Chelsea,
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When I go, I'm going like Elsie
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Start by admitting from cradle to tomb
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Isn't that long a stay
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Life is a cabaret, old chum,
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It's only a cabaret, old chum,
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And I love the cabaret.
Patti Page - Tennessee Waltz (1956)
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