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Cabaret est une chanson composée par John Kander sur des paroles de Fred Ebb pour leur comédie musicale Cabaret, créée à Broadway en 1966. Elle est chantée par l'héroïne principale, une chanteuse de cabaret nommée Sally Bowles. La chanson a été créée sur scène par Jill Haworth, l'interprète du rôle de Sally Bowles dans la production originale de Broadway de 1966. La protagoniste est jouée dans le film par Liza Minnelli.
Le film est inspiré de la comédie musicale Cabaret de John Kander et Fred Ebb, montée avec un grand succès à New York en 1966 avec Jill Haworth (Sally Bowles), Joel Grey (le maître de cérémonie), et Lotte Lenya (Fraulein Schneider). La comédie musicale est, elle-même, adaptée de la pièce I am a Camera du dramaturge anglais John Van Druten (publié en 1951) et du roman Adieu à Berlin (publié en 1939) de l'écrivain anglais Christopher Isherwood. Le film fait également penser au film L'Ange bleu (1930). La posture de Liza Minnelli sur une chaise rappelle celle de Marlène Dietrich sur un tonneau. Si l'intrigue du film Cabaret est différente de celle de L'Ange bleu, la montée du nazisme était déjà en filigrane dans le film de 1930, et encore plus explicite avec le recul du temps dans Cabaret.

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
So come to the cabaret
Come taste the wine
Come hear the band
Come blow that horn
Start celebrating right this way
Your table's waiting
What could permitting some prophet of doom
To wipe every smile away
Life is a cabaret, old chum
So 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 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 your room?
Come hear the music play
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the cabaret
And as for me
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
Isn't that long a stay
Life is a cabaret, old chum
It's only a cabaret, old chum
And I love a cabaret





Start spreading the news
I am leaving today
I want to be a part of it
New York, New York
These vagabond shoes
They are longing to stray
Right through the very heart of it
New York, New York
I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap
My little town blues
They are melting away
I gonna make a brand new start of it
In old New York
If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York
New York, New York
I want to wake up in that city
That never sleeps
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the list
Head of the heap
King of the hill
These are little town blues
They have all melted away
I am about to make a brand new start of it
Right there in old New York
And you bet [Incomprehensible] baby
If I can make it there
You know, I'm gonna make it just about anywhere
Come on, come through
New York, New York, New York