Cabaret

Hoy suena en La Arbonaida Cabaret un tema interpretado por Liza Minelli en la película del mismo título del año 1972. Se rodó cuando el género musical del cine estaba, prácticamente extinguido.

Reflejaba la película la vida del Berlín de los años 30, desde el cabaret "Kit-Kat Club", y toda la fauna que se movía en torno a él. También veíamos, de un modo muy verosímil, los oscuros años de penuria en Alemania, esos que sirvieron como caldo de cultivo para el triste advenimiento del nacionalsocialismo. Todos los personajes transpiran vitalidad y libertad, tienen ese ansia vitalista que inunda a los pueblos en las circunstancias más difíciles y que los lleva a un ritmo de vida frenético de "vivir el momento".

♫♫ Cabaret - Liza Minelli ♫♫

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 Cabaret, old chum,
Come to the Cabaret.

Come taste the wine,
Come hear the band.
Come blow your horn,
Start celebrating;
Right this way,
Your table's waiting

No use permitting
soem prophet of doom
To wipe every smile away.
Come hear the music play.
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, thats what comes
from to 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'd remember how'd she 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."

And as for me,
I made up my mind 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!

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