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There's no business like show business |
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Like no business I know |
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Everything about it is appealing |
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Everything that traffic will allow |
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No where could you get that happy feeling |
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When you are stealing that extra bow |
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There's no people like show people |
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They smile when they are low |
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Even with a turkey that you know will fold |
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You may be stranded out in the cold |
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Still you wouldn't change it for a sack of gold |
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Let's go on with the show |
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The butcher, the baker, the grocer, the clerk |
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Are secretly unhappy men because |
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The butcher, the baker, the grocer, the clerk |
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Get paid for what they do but no applause |
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They'd gladly bid their deary jobs |
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Goodbye for anything theatrical and why? |
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There's no business like show business |
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And I tell you it's so |
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Traveling through the country is so thrilling |
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Standing out in front on opening nights |
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Smiling as you watch the theater filling |
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And there's your billing out there in lights |
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There's no people like show people |
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They smile when they are low |
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Angels come from everywhere with lots of jack |
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And when you lose it there's no attack |
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Where could you get money that you don't give back? |
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Let's go on with the show |
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There's no business like show business |
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Like no business I know |
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You get word before the show has started |
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That your favorite uncle died at dawn |
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Top of that, your pa and ma have parted |
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You're broken-hearted, but you go on |
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There's no people like show people |
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They smile when they are low |
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Yesterday they told you, you would not go far |
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That night you open and there you are |
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Next day on your dressing room they've hung a star |
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Let's go on with the show |
