There’s No Business Like Show Business Harmonica Tabs

By: Irving Berlin
From: “Annie Get Your Gun”
Key: C

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There’s no bus-‘ness like show bus-‘ness
5 7 5 5 5 6
Like no bus-‘ness I know
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Ev-‘ry-thing a-bout it is ap-peal-ing
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Ev-‘ry-thing the traf-fic will al-low
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No-where could you get that hap-py feel-ing
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When you are steal-ing that ex-tra bow
7 8 5 5 5 7 5 5
There’s no peo-ple like show peo-ple
5 7 5 5 5 -7
They smile when they are low
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Ev-en with a tur-key that you know will fold
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You may be strand-ed out in the cold
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Still you would-n’t change it for a sack of gold
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Let’s go on with the show

[2]
The costumes, the scen’ry, 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 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

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

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

[3]
The cowboys, the tumblers, the wrestlers, the clowns
The roustabouts who move the show at dawn
The music, the spotlight, the people, the towns
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

Trav’ling thro’ the country will be thrilling
Standing out in front on opening nights
Smiling as you watch the benches filling
And your billing out there in lights

There’s no people like show people
They don’t run out of dough

Angels come from ev’rywhere 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