Written by: Irving Berlin
With vocal chorus
Arranged by: Axel Stordahl
From the Show: Annie Get Your Gun (1946)
Label: Columbia Records
Recorded: August 22, 1946
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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
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
The butcher, the baker, the
grocer, the clerk
Are secretly unhappy men because
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 why?
There's no business like show
business and I tell you 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
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 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 broken-hearted, but you go on
(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!!