Key: D major
Verse 1
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Applause, applause,
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we like applause because
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It means when it is striking us
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The audience is lik ing us
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Our work demands
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You don't sit on your hands
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And if the hand's tremendous
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You send us
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We live, we thrive
You keep us all alive
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With bravo and bravissimo
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We're dead if it's pianissimo
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Our quirk is work,
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is work we never shirk
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In a happy land of tinsel and gauze
Because
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We like applause
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Whether you're
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a Swiss bow -ringer
Or a crooner
Or a singer
Or monologist ventriloquist or what?
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Or a dog act or magician
Or a musical song musician
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Or an ingenue or pianist who is hot.
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Whether you play Pancinello,
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Little Eva, or Oth ello,
Having heard the call,
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you've given all you've got.
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And what better reward
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for a trooper
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Than the sound we consider super?
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Applause, applause,
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vociferous applause,
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From orchestra to gallery,
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Could mean a raise in salary.
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Give out. Give in.
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Be noisy.
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Break a dim.
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The manager, he ought us.
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Applaud us.
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We won renown when opening out of town
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in Boston and in Rockaway.
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They heard applause a block away.
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If we've come through,
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give credit where it's due
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And obey the theatre's
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unwritten laws
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Because We like our plots.
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