Theres No Business Like Show Business

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1. The costumes, the scenery, the make-up, the props, 
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    the audience that lifts you when you're down. 
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    The headaches, the heartaches, the backaches, the flops, 
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    the sheriff who escorts you out of town. 
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    Ehe opening when your heart beats like a drum, 
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    the closing when the customers don't come.  

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    There’s no business like show business like no business I know, 
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    everything about it is appealing, everything that traffic will allow, 
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    nowhere could you have 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, 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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2. 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 dreary jobs goodbye  
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    for anything theatrical and why?  

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    There’s no business like show business and you tell me 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, 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, 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, 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 !