Writers: Clarence Reid, Willie Clarke, Brad Shapiro & Steve Alaimo

there's no bus'ness like love bus'ness 
there's no bus'ness I know 
one day ya wanna hold on forever 
the next you wanna let it go 

there's nothin' shakin' ll ke love makin' 
there's nothin'as long as it lasts 
one day can be there forever 
the next is a thing of the past 
now listen to this 

I fell in love with a sweet little girl once 
she was ev'rything a woman should be 
did ev'rything to find if she was wrong 
but it seemed she loved only me 
she gave me some pretty good things 
things I couldn't get from my own dear mother 
I had to go 'way for just a few days 
when I returned she'd gone off with my brother 
I was drivin' and I didn't see it coming, no 

there's no bus'ness like love bus'ness 
there's no bus'ness I know 
one day ya wanna hold on forever 
the next you wanna let it go 

once I knew this rich man 
he treated hiswoman like a queen 
he gave the woman ev'rything she needed 
he kept her lookin'so fine and clean 
he had so much faith in her 
his love he never had to check out 
he had to go see a man about a dog one day 
and when he got back he found she'd shimmied out 
I tried to tell you boy, you wouldn't listen to me 

there's no bus'ness like love bus'ness 
there's no bus'ness I know 
one day ya wanna hold on forever 
the next you wanna let it go 

listen! there ain't nothin' shakin' like love makin' 
there ain't nothin' as long as it lasts 
one day you wanna hold on forever 
the next is a thing of the past 

la, da, da, da, da, da, ooh, whoo 
la, da, da, da, da, da, ooh, whoo, whoo, whoo 
la, da, da, da, da, da, ooh, whoo 

there's no bus'ness like love bus'ness 
there's no bus'ness I know 
one day ya wanna hold on forever 
the next you wanna let it go 

listen! there ain't nothin' shakin' like love makin' 
there ain't nothin' as long as it lasts 
one day you wanna hold on forever 
the next is a thing of the past