Cabaret

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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
Start celebrating

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''Right this way, your table's waiting.

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''What good's permitting
Some prophet of doom

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''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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''l used to have a girlfriend
Known as Elsie.

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''With whom l shared
Four sordid rooms in Chelsea.

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''She wasn't what you'd call
A blushing flower

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''As a matter of fact
She rented by the hour.

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''The day she died
The neighbors came to snicker.

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''Well, that's what comes
Of too much pills and liquor.

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''But when l saw her
Laid out like a queen

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''She was the happiest corpse
l'd ever seen.

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''l think of Elsie to this very day

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''l remember how
She'd turn to me and say

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''What good is sitting
All 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