Cabaret (canción)

«Cabaret»
Canción de Liza Minnelli
Publicación	1966
Compositor	John Kander
Letrista	Fred Ebb
Idioma original	inglés

Cabaret es título de una canción compuesta en 1966 para el musical homónimo. La música está compuesta por John Kander y las letras por Fred Ebb. En la película, Liza Minnelli canta esta canción.

Contexto

En el musical la canción es interpretada por Sally Bowles, en un club de la Alemania Nazi en 1931. Su amante le cuenta que va a regresar a América y la va a llevar con él, y así podrán ver crecer a su hijo en un país en paz; a lo que Sally protesta porque le gusta su vida en Berlín.

Letra

"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 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.

What good's permitting Some prophet of doom To wipe every smile away. 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, 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 you room? Come hear the music play. Life is a Cabaret, old chum Come to the Cabaret."

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 It isn't that long a stay. Life is a Cabaret, old chum Only a Cabaret, old chum

And I love a Cabaret.​

Referencias

Predecesor: I Could Have Danced All Night de My Fair Lady

Canciones más representativas del cine estadounidense Puesto nº 18

Sucesor: Some Day My Prince Will Come de Blancanieves y los siete enanitos

• Datos: Q18159846