A popular song from 1950.
Words by Benny Davis.
Music by Milton Ager.
Sheet music provided by Laurence Rubenstein:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
The show must go on, life is a play
The show must go on, life is that way
Tho’ love lets you down
Tho’ fortune may frown
Go on like the clown in Pagliacci
They say love is cruel, maybe it’s so
I may be a fool, but this I know
Curtains rise and descend
Hearts may break, but they mend
Love wins out in the end
The show must go on
Interlude
The dreamer and the lover
The beggar and the King
All awaken to discover
That the play is the thing
The world is a stage
And we’re all in the cast
So it’s been in ev’ry age
So it will be down to the last
The show must go on, Shakespeare was right
As sure as the dawn follows the night
Curtains rise and descend
Hearts may break, but they mend
Love wins out in the end
The show must go on
Sung here by Fred Feild: