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WHAT A WAY TO GO

A friend’s aunt passed away recently while singing “Cabaret” at a karaoke bar. She was in her 70s, which paints a rather unusual picture. The words to that song make it a pretty apt swan song:

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,
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
Some prophet of doom
To wipe every smile away.
Life is a cabaret, old chum,
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
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
There 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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Prayer request: The same friend whose aunt died with her singing boots on has since lost the stepfather of her ex-husband – two family deaths within a couple of weeks. She’s not sure either person was a believer. Lord, we pray that they were, and we pray that this loss will inspire others within that family to come to saving faith – the REAL Cabaret! (Deuteronomy 4:29)