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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 get that happy feeling 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, you may be stranded out in the cold |
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Still you wouldn't change it for a sack of gold, let's go on with the show |
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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 for anything theatrical and why? |
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There's no business like show business and I tell you it's so |
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Traveling through the country is so thrilling, standing out in front on opening nights |
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Smiling as you watch the theater filling, 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, and when you lose it, there's no attack |
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Where could you get money that you don't give back? 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 that your favorite uncle died at dawn |
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Top of that, your pa and ma have parted, 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, that night you open and there you are |
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Next day on your dressing room they've hung a star, let's go on with the show!! |
