
There's No Business Like Show Business
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- 1954
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There's no business
like show business
Like no business I know
Let's go on with the show
There's no business
like show business
Like no business I know
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
You promised
That you'd forget me not
But you forgot to remember
When that midnight choo-choo
leaves for Alabam'
I got to catch that train
I'll be right there
I've got my fare
When I see that
rusty-haired conductor man
I got to find that man
I'll grab him
by the collar
And I'll holler
- Ala...
- Bam'
- Ala... '
- Bam...
That's where
you stop your train
That brings me back again
Down home
where I'll remain
Where my honey lamb
Am
I will be right there
with bells
When that old
conductor yells
All aboard
All aboard
for Alabamy
Board!
For Alabam'
For Alabamy
Board!
I'll be right there
with bells
When that
old conductor yells
All aboard
For Alabam'
When that midnight choo-choo
leaves for Alabam'
Stop!
In days of yore
before the war
When hearts now old
were young
At home each night
by firelight
Those dear old songs
were sung
Sweet melodies
and memories
Around my heart
still cling
That's why I like
to hear a song
Like mother
used to sing
Won't you play
a simple melody
Like my mother
sang to me?
One with good
old-fashioned harmony
Play a simple melody
Musical demon
Sets your honey
a-dreamin'
Won't you
play me some rag?
Just change that
classical nag
To some sweet
beautiful drag
If you will
play from the copy
Of a tune
that is choppy
You'll get
all my applause
And that is
simply because
I want to listen to rag
A...
Musical demon
Sets your honey
a-dreamin'
But won't you
play me some rag?
Just change that
classical nag
To some sweet
beautiful drag
If you will play
from a copy
Of a tune
that is choppy
You'll get all
my applause
And that is
simply because
I want to hear
some ragtime music
That's what
you want to hear
A sweet song with
a sigh and a tear
A good old
ragtime simple melody
"Peter Rabbit was a very bad
little rabbit,
"and that's why
Peter Rabbit
"was sent to bed
without his supper.
"But Flopsy, Mopsy,
and Cotton-Tail,
they had ice cream
and raspberry jam."
They say it's late.
How late?
I don't know.
They just said
it was late.
Well, I know that.
You didn't have to go
all the way over there
to find that out.
Don't yell at me, Molly.
I don't run the railroad.
Wake me up when
the train gets here.
Terry.
Already?
No. No. Terry,
this is a crummy way
to bring up kids.
Oh, Molly, don't start
sending the kids
back to your mother
just because
the train is late.
Steve ought to go
to school,
and they should be
sleeping in beds
instead of... oh,
it's just not right
keeping them up all hours
of the night like this.
I want them to have
an education,
a real education.
They have to learn
arithmetic and spelling
and geography.
You never went past
the sixth grade.
It was probably
the fourth grade
because you said
it was the sixth.
My age is the only thing
I lie about,
and I don't add on,
I take off.
All right,
the sixth grade,
but there's
nothing wrong
with your arithmetic.
You can whistle
Mandy
doing
Off To Buffalo
and count the house
at the same time
and tell me
within 5 cents
how much is
out there.
That's not arithmetic.
Darn right that's not.
That's higher mathematics.
Besides,
the welfare workers
are going
to crack down on us
wherever we go, just like
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