I'm inviting you to my vaudeville   "oui encore" you say, "and on with the show"   Ladies, gentlemen, before I sing to you   The light that shines twice as bright,   Burns half as long.      Come let me entertain you all   Leave all your troubles big and small   Life's a ball, life's a ball.   Hitch a ride on my crooked merry-go-round   Hear the clinking-clanking sound   Of the song that I bring      Take my song, take my hand, never let me down,   Like love let me down, like love pushed me around      So long, goodbye, I lost, did try   This is the last song I'll ever sing   The last song I'll sing      I played in the cabaret of love   I wore heart, fist and glove.   Push and shove, push and shove....   And all for love      Take my song, take my hand, never let me down,   Like love let me down, like love pushed me around      So long, goodbye, I lost, did try   This is the last song I'll ever sing   The last song I'll sing   This is the last song I'll ever sing   The last song I'll sing      Here, with words that can't be said   We take songs to our bed   Sing - a - long, sing - a - long.... to my last song.