Discover the story of the song > Don’t Tell Mama – Cast of Cabaret

The lyrics are about the narrator, Sally Bowles, who is working in a nightclub in lacy pants, but her mother thinks she is living in a convent in the south of France. Sally asks the people she talks to not to tell her mother about her job, and she promises to keep their secrets too. She also asks them not to tell anyone else, including her father, uncle or brother, because she doesn't want her mother to find out.