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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Natasha Richardson
Vocals
Alan Cumming
Speaker
Sam Mendes
Conductor
Patrick Vaccariello
Conductor
Cabaret Orchestra (1998)
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Fred Ebb
Lyrics
John Kander
Composer
Christopher Isherwood
Based on the Work of
Joe Masteroff
Book
John Van Druten
Based on the Work of
Michael Gibson
Orchestrator
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Jay David Saks
Producer
James Nichols
Recording Engineer
Ken Hahn
Mixing Engineer
Greg Thompson
Assistant Engineer
Chuck Bailey
Assistant Engineer
Rob Marshall
Additional Producer
Lyrics
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 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
No use permitting some prophet of doom
To wipe every smile away.
Come hear the music play.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
Come to the Cabaret!
I used to have a 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, thats what comes
From to 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'd remember how'd she turn 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,
I made up my mind 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,
Only a Cabaret, old chum,
And I love a Cabaret!
Writer(s): John Kander, Fred Ebb
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