There's No Business Like Show Business Lyrics

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!!

Irving Berlin - Annie Get Your Gun: An Original Cast Album (1966 Lincoln Center Cast)

Oct 1990

1. Overture - Orchestra
2. Colonel Buffalo Bill - Jerry Orbach
3. I'm a Bad, Bad Man - Bruce Yarnell
4. Doin' What Comes Natur'lly - Ethel Merman
5. The Girl That I Marry - Bruce Yarnell
6. You Can't Get A Man With A Gun - Ethel Merman
7. There's No Business Like Show Business - Bruce Yarnell
8. They Say It's Wonderful - Bruce Yarnell
9. Moonshine Lullaby - Ethel Merman
10. There's No Business Like Show Business (Reprise) - Ethel Merman
11. My Defenses Are Down - Bruce Yarnell
12. I'm An Indian Too - Ethel Merman
13. I Got Lost In His Arms - Ethel Merman
14. I Got The Sun In The Morning - Ethel Merman
15. An Old Fashioned Wedding - Bruce Yarnell
16. Anything You Can Do - Ethel Merman
17. Finale: There's No Business Like Show Business/They Say It's Wonderful (Reprises) - Entire Company