There's No Business Like Show Business - From "Annie Get Your Gun"

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There's no business like show business
 Like no business I know
 Everything about it is appealing
 Everything the 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 open 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 roustabouts that move the show at dawn
 The music, the spotlights, the people, the towns
 Your packages, 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
 Like no business I know
 You get word before the show has started
 That your favorite uncle died at dawn
 Top of that, your ma and pa have parted
 You're broken-hearted
 But you go on
 There's no people like show people they don't run out of dough
 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!
 The costumes, the scenery, the make-up, the props
 The audience that lifts you when you're down
 The headaches, the heartaches, the backaches, the flops
 The sheriff who escorts you out of town
 The op'ning 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
 No where could you have that happy feeling
 When you aren't 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 for a sack of gold
 Let's go on with the show
 Let's go on with the show
 

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Duration
03:11
Key
1
Tempo
135 BPM

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