There's No Business Like Show Business

The costumes, the scenery, the makeup, the props
The audience that lifts you when you're down
The headaches, the heartaches, the backaches, the flops
The sheriff who escorts you on the call
The opening when your heart beats like a drum
The closing when the customers won't come

There's no business like show, business like no
Business I know
Everything about it is appealing
Everything the traffic will allow
Oh, where could you have that happy feeling
When you are stealing that extra ball?
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 opened and there you are
Next day on your dressing room they've hung a star
Let's go on with the show

The cowboys, the wrestlers
The tumblers, the clowns, the rouse the flouts that move the show at dawn
The music, the spotlights, the people, the town
Your baggage with the labels pasted on
The sawdust and the horses and the smell
The towel you've taken from the last hotel

There's no business like show, business if you tell me it's so
Traveling through the country is so thrilling
Standing out in front of open nights
Smiling as you watch the benches filling and see your billing out there in line
There's no people like show, people they smile when they are down

Even with the turkey that you know and love
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
Let's go on with the show
The show, the show