Track Title:               The Show Must Go On


Prime Artist:              Rita Hayworth
Lyrics by:                 Ira Gershwin     (b. Israel Gershvin)
Music by:                  Jerome Kern   (J. David K.)
Vocal:                     Martha Mears

Vocal:                     Leslie Brooks
From the Film:             Cover Girl  1944 (M)


Lyrics:
Sung and Danced by:  Rita Hayworth, Leslie Brooks and chorus; Hayworth's
voice dubbed by Martha Mears

The show must go on!
The show must go on
To answer all the clamor
For oomph and glamour
And so on!

To captivate Tom, Dick and Harry,
Each Matilda, Kate and Carrie,
Cleopatra and DuBarry
Puts her show on.

Way back in history,
Old Adam didn't give a care;
There was no mystery
A rag, a bone, a hank of hair.

But since humanity,
Discovered vanity,
We only know the show must go on.
We only know the show must go on.

This clever lyrical endeavor
Could probably go on forever.
But all we're saying is what you know
That glamour is a woman's show.

The show most people like to view
Is evident in burlesque.

[They sing and dance like a line of burlesque girls.]

The show must go on!
The show must go on!
The show must go on
To answer all the clamor
For oomph and glamour
And so on!

But since humanity,
Discovered vanity,
We only know the show must go on.

But the show we show is different because
We don't depend on this nor this for applause.

[They swing their hips.]
That sort of thing we scornfully dismiss for.......this!

[They dance.]
We only know the show must go on!

Contributed by Carlene Bogle