(C)What good is (G7)sit ting a (C)lone in your (G)room?

(C)Come hear the (G)mu sic (C7)play.

(F)Life is a (F#dim)cab a (Em7)ret, old (A7)chum,

(Dm7)come to the (G7)cab a (C)ret.

(C)Put down the (G7)knit ting, the (C)book and the (G)broom.

(C)Time for a (G)hol i (C7)day.

(F)Life is a (F#dim)cab a (Em7)ret, old (A7)chum,

(Dm7)come to the (G7)cab a (C)ret.

(C)ret.

Come taste the (Fm)wine,

come hear the (C)band.

Come blow a (Am)horn, start (A)cel e (D7)brat ing: (G7)Right this way your ta ble’s wait ing.

(C)No use per (G7)mit ting some (C)proph et of (G)doom

to (C)wipe ev ’ry smile (F#dim)a way.

(F)Life is a (F#dim)cab a (Em7)ret, old chum,

(Dm7)come to the (Fm)cab a (C)ret!

I (C)used to have a (G)girl friend known as (C)El sie,

with whom I shared four (G)sor did rooms in (C)Chel sea.

She (F6)was n’t what you’d (Bm7)call a (E)blush ing (Am)flow er.

As a (Am7)mat ter of fact, she (D7)rent ed by the (G7)ho ur.

The (C)day she died the (G)neigh bors came to (C)snick er:

“Well, that’s what comes of (G)too much pills and (C)li quor.”

But (F6)when I saw her (Bm7)laid out (E7)like a (Am)queen,

she was the (Dm7)hap pi est corpse I’d (G7)ev er (C)seen.

I (B7)think of El sie to this ver y (Em)day.

(A7)I re (D7)mem ber how she’d turn to me and (G7)say:

(C)What is (G7)sit ting a (C)lone in your (G)room?

(C)Come hear the (Cmaj7)mu sic (C7)play.

(F)Life is a (F#dim)cab a (Em7)ret, old (A7)chum,

(Dm7)come to the (G7)cab a (C)ret.

(C)Put down the (G7)knit ting, the (C)book and the (G)broom.

(C)Time for a (G)hol i (C7)day.

(F)Life is a (F#dim)cab a (Em7)ret, old (A7)chum,

(Dm7)come to the (G7)cab a (C)ret.”

And as for (Fm7)me,

as for (Em7)me,

I made my mind (Am)up back in (D7)Chel sea (G7)when I go I’m go ing like El sie.

(C)Start ad (G7)mit ting, from (C)cra dle to (G)tomb

(C)is n’t that long a (Gm7)stay.

(F)Life is a (F#dim)cab a (Em7)ret, old (A7)chum,

(Dm7)on ly a (D#dim)cab a (Em7)ret, old chum, and (Dm7)I love

a (F)cab

(Fm)a

(C)ret!