There's No Business Like Show Business

There's no business like show business,

like

no business I know.

Everything about it is a feeling.

Everything the traffic will allow.

Nowhere could you get that happy feeling.

When you are stealing that extra bow.

There's no people like show people, they

smile when they are low.

Yesterday they told you you would not go

far.

That night you opened and there you are.

Next day on your dressing room they've

hung a star.

Let's go on with the show.

There's no business like show business,

like no

business I know.

You get word before the show has started

that your favorite

uncle died at dawn.

Top of that your pa and ma have parted.

You're brokenhearted, but you go on.

There's no people like show people, they

don't run out of dough.

Angels come from everywhere with lots of

jack.

And when you lose it there's no attack.

Where could you get money

that you don't give back?

Let's go on with the show.

The butcher, the baker, the grocer,

the clerk are

secretly unhappy men, they carp.

The butcher, the baker, the grocer,

the clerk get

paid for what they do, but no applause.

They'd gladly bid their dreary jobs

goodbye for

anything theatrical and wide.

There's no business like show business, if

you tell me it's so.

Traveling through the country will be

thrilling.

Standing out in front on opening night.

Smiling as you watch the theater filling.

And there's your billing up there in

lights.

There's no people like show people, they

smile when they are low.

Even with a turkey

that you know will fold.

You may be stranded out in the cold.

Still you wouldn't change it for a sack of

gold.

Let's go

on with the

show