Lyrics There's No Business Like Show Business - Mel Tormé

There's no business like show business, like no business I know
Everything about it is appealing
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 open 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 broken hearted, 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)
Huh, 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 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, if you tell me it's so)
Traveling to 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)