There's No Business Like Show Business (From "Annie Get Your Gun") - Betty Hutton

The Cowboys, the wrestlers, the tumblers, the clowns

The roustabouts that move the show at dawn

The music, the splights, the people, the towns

Your baggage with the labbels pasted on

The saw dust, and the horses, and the smell

The towel you’ve taken from the last hotel

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

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 costumes, the scenary, the make-up, the props

The audience that lifts you when you’re down

The headaches, the heartaches, the backaches, the flops

The sheriff that escorts you out of town

The opening when your heart beats like a drum

The closing when the customers don’t come

There’s no business like show business

If you tell me it’s so

Travelling through the country is so thrilling

Standing out in front on opening nights

Smiling as you watch the dancers filling

And see ya 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

Let’s go on with the show