CABARET Emcee: THANK YOU. AND NOW, MEINE DAMEN UND HEREN, MESDAMES ET MESSIEURS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. THE KIT KAT KLUB IS SO HAPPY TO WELCOME BACK AN OLD FRIEND. I GIVE YOU, THE TOAST OF MAYFAIR, FRAULEIN SALLY BOWLES! Sally: 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 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. NO USE PERMITTING SOME PROPHET OF DOOM TO WIPE EVERY SMILE AWAY. LIFE IS A CABARET, OLD CHUM, 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 SAY 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 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 A CABARET, OLD CHUM, COME TO THE CABARET." AND AS FOR ME, 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, ONLY A CABARET, OLD CHUM, AND I LOVE A CABARET!