[Verse 1]
What good is sitting alone in your room?
Come hear the music play, yes
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the cabaret

[Verse 2]
Put down that knitting, the book and the broom
Time for a holiday
Life is a cabaret, old chum
So come to the cabaret

[Bridge]
Come taste the wine
Come hear the band
Yes it's time for celebrating
Right this way, your table's waiting

[Verse 3]
No use permitting some prophet of doom
Wipe every smile away, yes
Life is a cabaret, old chum
So come to the cabaret, yeah

[Trumpet solo]
[Coda]
Yes, life is a cabaret, old chum
Only a cabaret, old chum
So come to the cabaret