CABARET
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
So come to the cabaret
Come taste the wine
Come hear the band
Come blow that horn
Start celebrating right this way
Your table's waiting
What could 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 this 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, 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 your 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
Isn't that long a stay
Life is a cabaret, old chum
It's only a cabaret, old chum
And i love a cabaret
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
So come to the cabaret
Come taste the wine
Come hear the band
Come blow that horn
Start celebrating right this way
Your table's waiting
What could 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 this 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, 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 your 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
Isn't that long a stay
Life is a cabaret, old chum
It's only a cabaret, old chum
And i love a cabaret
CABARET
¿Por qué te encierras en la habitación?
Ven a escuchar la música en vivo
La vida es un cabaret, vieja amiga
Ven al cabaret.
Basta de radio, escoba y sillón
Es tiempo de vacaciones
La vida es un cabaret, vieja amiga
Ven al cabaret.
Ven a tomar vino
Ven a escuchar la orquesta
Ven a escuchar los tambores
Comienza a celebrar tu vida
Tu mesa te está esperando
Basta de oír el eterno llanto
Comienza a sonreír
La vida es un cabaret, vieja amiga
Ven al cabaret.
Yo tuve una amiga llamada Elsi.
Con ella compartí un piso en Chelsea.
No era lo que se dice una santa.
La verdad es que alquilaba su cuerpo por horas
El día que ella murió los vecinos la criticaron en su velorio
“Bien, así se terminas si vas por mal camino “
Pero yo la vi en su ataúd bella como una reina
Ella fue la muerta más feliz que he visto
Yo pienso en Elsi todos los días
Recuerdo cuando me miró y me dijo.
“¿Por qué te encierras en la habitación?
Ven a escuchar la música en vivo
La vida es un cabaret, vieja amiga
Ven al cabaret.”
Y en cuanto a mí
Y en cuanto a mí
Lo decidí allí en Chelsea
Moriré feliz como Elsi.
El tiempo pasa volando desde la cuna al ataúd
No hay que perder tiempo
La vida es un cabaret, vieja amiga
Sólo un cabaret, vieja amiga.
Y yo amo a este Cabaret.
