There’s no business like show business      (Listen to midi)

 

             F                     Dm                F                   Dm

1. The costumes, the scenery, the make-up, the props,

           F                    G                               C

    the audience that lifts you when you're down.

             Bb                    Gm                    Bb                     Gm

    The headaches, the heartaches, the backaches, the flops,

              D                 G                      C

    the sheriff who escorts you out of town.

             E                             B7                         E

    Ehe opening when your heart beats like a drum,

             C                      Am                       G

    the closing when the customers don't come.

 

                  C                        Am                         C                     Am

    There’s no business like show business like no business I know,

     G                                     C          G                                       C

    everything about it is appealing, everything that traffic will allow,

     G                                                      Am

    nowhere could you have that happy feeling,

                              D                         G

    when you are stealing that extra bow.

                  C                      Am                         C                            F

    There’s no people like show people, they smile when they are low,

    Dm                                          C          A

    even with a turkey that you know will fold,

              D           G              C         A

    you may be stranded out in the cold,

    Dm                                               C          A

    still you wouldn’t change it for a sack of gold,

           Dm G                  C

    let’s go on with the show.

 

             F                Dm              F               Dm

2. The butcher, the baker, the grocer, the clerk,

            F               C                     G

    are secretly unhappy men because,

           Bb               Gm             Bb             Gm

    the butcher, the baker, the grocer, the clerk,

            D                         G                     C

    get paid for what they do, but no applause.

                   E                      B7                     E

    They’d gladly bid their dreary jobs goodbye

          C              Am                 G

    for anything theatrical and why?

 

                  C                        Am                          C                   Am

    There’s no business like show business and you tell me it’s so,

      G                                                     C

    traveling through the country is so thrilling,

       G                                               C

    standing out in front on opening nights,

        G                                             Am

    smiling as you watch the theater filling,

                                D                         G

    and there’s your billing out there in lights.

                  C                      Am                          C                           F

    There’s no people like show people, they smile when they are low,

    Dm                                                   C        A

    angels come from everywhere with lots of jack,

               D           G                    C     A

    and when you lose it, there’s no attack,

        Dm                                                   C              A

    where could you get money that you don’t give back?

            Dm G                  C

    Let’s go on with the show !

 

                 C                          Am                         C                      Am

    There’s no business like show business, like no business I know,

     G                                                     C

    you get word before the show has started,

       G                                             C

    that your favorite uncle died at dawn,

     G                                                 Am

    top of that, your pa and ma have parted,

                              D                           G

    you’re broken-hearted, but you go on.

                  C                     Am                           C                           F

    There’s no people like show people, they smile when they are low,

 

      Dm                                                  C        A

    yesterday they told you, you would not go far,

             D            G                C            A

    that night you open, and there you are.

      Dm                                                          C           A

    Next day on your dressing room they’ve hung a star,

           Dm G                  C

    let’s go on with the show !               (Doris Day & Robert Goulet)