March 17, 2020 - 186 - "Life Ain't No Cabaret, Old (Social-Distanced) Chum"

Cootie-free Cabaret

    So I was singing "Cabaret" around the house this morning.  For Ella's amusement...and mine.  But then I actually listened to the lyrics and realized, well:  Maybe life isn't a Cabaret.

    I started re-working the lyrics to fit the times.  I think the new words work better with our 'new normal'.

    Sorry Sally Bowles, I know you meant well, but positivity is way out of vogue.  

Times change, I suppose.


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Pre-Corona:                                                        Post-Corona:

Cabaret                                                             Hideaway
-by John Kander                                               -by John Kander...and Susan Stewart

What good is sitting alone in your room?     Please go and sit alone in your room
Come hear the music play                                Keep all your cooties at bay
Life is a cabaret, old chum                               Life is a hideaway, old (socially-distanced) chum
Come to the Cabaret                                          Covid has closed the Cabaret


Put down the knitting,                                     Pick up the knitting,
the book and the broom                                   the book and the broom
It's time for a holiday                                       Time for a nice home-stay,
Life is a cabaret, old chum                              Life is a Hideaway, old (socially-distanced) chum
Come to the Cabaret                                        Stay clear of the Cabaret!

Come taste the wine                                        Stay home and drink alone
Come hear the band                                        Stay in and clean the house
Come blow a horn                                           Wipe down your horn
Start celebrating                                              Start isolating
Right this way,                                                 Just that way,
your table's waiting                                        Your go-order's waiting.

What good's permitting some                      Start by permitting this
    prophet of doom                                             prophet of doom
To wipe every smile away                              To wipe every smile away
Life is a cabaret, old chum                            Life ain't no cabaret, old (socially-distanced) chum
So come to the Cabaret!                                Stay home in your Hideaway!!

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"I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry.  It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing."

-Peter Mayle

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