There's No Business Like Show Business

There's No Business Like Show Business - Bruce Yarnell/Rufus Smith/Ethel Merman/Jerry Orbach

The cowboys the wrestlers the tumblers the clowns

The roustabouts that move the show at dawn

The music the spotlights the people the towns

Your baggage with the labels pasted on

The sawdust and the horses and the smell

The towel you've taken from the last hotel

There's no business like show business like no business I know

Everything about It Is appealing everything that 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 open and there you are

Next day on your dressing room they've hung a star

Let's go on with the show

The costumes the scenery the makeup the props

The audience that lifts you when you're down

The headaches the heartaches the backaches the flops

The sheriff who escorts you out of town

The opening when your heart beats like a drum

The closing when the customers won't come

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

There's no business like show business and you tell me It's so

Traveling through the country Is so thrilling standing out In front on opening nights

Smiling as you watch the theater filling and there's your billing out 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

Let's go on with the show