There's No Business - !!!NEW!!!

A !!!NEW!!! entry today - meaning it's a brand new creation not belonging to any previous category or submission. And it's a topical reworking or parody of the Irving Berlin song 'There's No Business Like Show Business'.

The butcher, the baker, the grocer, the clerk

Are openly unhappy men because

The butcher, the baker, the grocer, the clerk

Want pay for what they do and not applause

They’d glad bid these dreary times goodbye

For any chance to boost their sales and why

There’s no business for their business

There’s no business on show

Everything about it seemed appealing

They were sure that their business would wow

Nowhere could they get that happy feeling

When they were dealing but what’s up now

There’s no business for their business

There’s no business you know

They think their MP’ll help them out the hole

They ask them now to fulfill their role

Next day they seem to find themselves on the dole

Can’t go on with the show

Can’t go on with the show

There’s no business for their business

There’s no business they know

Everyday they open is depressing

Waiting to see if someone will come

Watching all the bills mount is distressing

So they’re confessing it’s over now

There’s no business for their business

There’s no business and so

Even with a great idea they know will fly

They’ve got no customers passing by

To summon up a smile they can’t even try

They’ve never felt so low

There’s no business for their business

There’s no business to show

They get word before the day has started

That the bank has now called in their loan

Top of that their suppliers’ departed

They’re so downhearted but they can’t moan

There’s no business for their business

So their business must go

When they first started out they rose like a star

Now look at them fallen so far

Next day you may find they’re living out their car

Got nowhere else to go

Got nowhere else to go