Put What good is (Faug)sit ting a (Bb)lone in your room?

it’s (Bb)Come hear the (Faug)mus ic (Bb7)play.

(Eb)Life is a ca ba (Dm7)ret, old chum;

(Cm7)come to the (F7)ca ba (Bb)ret.

Put down good the (Faug)knit ting, the (Bb)book and the broom; it’s (Bb)time for a (Faug)ho li (Bb7)day.

(Eb)Life is a ca ba (Dm7)ret, old chum;

(Cm7)come to the (F7)ca ba (Bb)ret.

(Bb)-

(CN.C.)Come taste the wine,

come hear the (Bb)band.

Come blow your (Gm)horn, start (Gm7)ce le (C7)brat ing: (F)right (CN.C.)this way, your ta ble’s wait ing.

(Bb)What good’s per (Faug)mit ting some (Bb)pro phet of doom to (Bb)wipe ev ’ry (Faug)smile a (Fm6)way?

(Eb6)Life is a (Ebdim)ca ba (F6)ret, old chum: so (C9)come to the (Cm7)ca (F7)ba (Gdim)ret.

I (Bb)used to have this (Faug)girl friend known as (Bb)Els ie,

with (Bb)whom I shared four (Faug)sor did rooms in (Bb)Chel sea.

She (Eb6)was n’t what you’d (D7)call a blush ing (Gm)flow er;

as a (C7)mat ter (CN.C.)of fact she (C7)rent (CN.C.)ed by the ho ur!

The (Bb)day she died, the (Faug)neigh bours came to (Bb)snick er:

“Well, (Bb)that’s what comes from (Faug)too much pills and (Bb)lic quor!”

But (Eb6)when I saw her laid out (D7)like a (Gm)queen,

she was the (Eb)hap pi est corpse I’d (F7)ev er seen.

I (A7)think of Els ie to this ve ry (Dm7)day.

(G13)I re (F)mem ber how she’d (C7)turn to me and (F13)say:

“What good is (Faug)sit ting all a (Bb)lone in your room?

(Bb)Come hear the mu sic (Bb7)play.

(Eb)Life is a ca ba (Dm7)ret, old (G7sus4)chum; (Cm7)come to the (F7)ca ba (Bb)ret.”

(CN.C.)And as for (Ebm7)me hah!

and as for (Bb)me,

(CN.C.)I made my (Gm)mind up (Gm7)back in (C7)Chel sea, when I go

I’m (G)go ing like Els ie.

(C)Start by ad (Gaug)mit ting, from (C)crad le to tomb, it (C)is n’t that a (Gaug)long a (C7)stay.

(F)Life is a (F#dim)ca ba (C)ret, old chum; it’s (F)on ly a ca ba (C)ret, old chum; and I love a (F)ca (G7)ba (C)ret.