There's No Business Like Show Business chords by Irving Berlin

Chords with lyrics

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1. The costumes, the scenery, the make-up, the props,
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  the audience that lifts you when you're down.
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  The headaches, the heartaches, the backaches, the flops,
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  the sheriff who escorts you out of town.
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  Ehe opening when your heart beats like a drum,
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  the closing when the customers don't come.

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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 have that happy feeling,
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  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,
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  you may be stranded out in the cold,
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  still you wouldn?t change it for a sack of gold,
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  let?s go on with the show.

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2. 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
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  for anything theatrical and why?

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  There?s no business like show business and you tell me it?s so,
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  traveling through the country is so thrilling,
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  standing out in front on opening nights,
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  smiling as you watch the theater filling,
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  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,
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  and when you lose it, there?s no attack,
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  where could you get money that you don?t give back?
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  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,
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  that your favorite uncle died at dawn,
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  top of that, your pa and ma have parted,
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  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,
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  that night you open, and there you are.
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  Next day on your dressing room they?ve hung a star,
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  let?s go on with the show !