Cabaret, Liza Minnelli

"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.
It's time for a holiday.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum
Come to the Cabaret.

Come taste the wine, Come hear the band.
Come blow a horn, Start celebrating;
Right this way, Your table's waiting.

What good's 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 a girlfriend Known as Elsie,
With whom I shared A 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."
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 turn to me and say:
"What good is sitting all alone in you room?
Come hear the music play.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
Come to the Cabaret.

And as for me, And 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
It isn't that a long a stay.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
It's only a Cabaret, old chum
And I love a Cabaret.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jazz
• Liza
• Minnelli
• Cabaret

[EmilianaKostova]

Oh, the irony of sitting alone in my room whilst watching this...

[Malanrea]

She has her mother's eyes and voice. <3

[mariomaniac6411]

@Lipglosshoneybun the point of Cabaret is that Sally Bowles was not the best singer, but she had this fabulous charisma about her, just like Liza Minnelli

[schnoooozie]

@Lipglosshoneybun What????? Dude. Seriously!!! She is the QUEEN. This is the best version by a mile. Her voice is so insanely fabulous, she makes it interesting, she is a whirling dervish of energy and she kills it.

[lavernlarsen48]

Your video is a favorite on Slovenia

[nomie220]

She's a goddess.

[IWantDaraObrien]

oh gaaad i love this, shimmying away and pretending im her haha

[edmame]

Liza's Sally onstage was the archetypal tragic jester (potentials of that timeless and symbolic mask, more than offstage Sally seeping into stage-Sally by NR/JD), who happened to possess a cabaret singer in modern times.

[Lipglosshoneybun]

she sings this REALLY retardedly. Prefer Natasha and Judi's version much much better

[itsmegp46]

@kaysknoxville69 With my Grandma I mean! lol sorry.

[itsmegp46]

@kaysknoxville69 God Bless your Grandma. I remember watching this with her on the tv.