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“Cotton Blossom,” words and music by Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, copyright © 1927 Universal-Polygram Int. Publ. Inc. on behalf of T. B. Harms Co.
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“Some Other Time,” words and music by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, copyright © 1944. International copyright secured. All rights reserved.
“The Circus Animals’ Desertion” reprinted with the permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, from The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume 1: The Poems, Revised, edited by Richard J. Finneran.
Copyright © 1940 by Georgie Yeats; copyright © renewed 1968 by Bertha Georgie Yeats, Michael Butler Yeats, and Anne Yeats.
LIVES OF THE CIRCUS ANIMALS. Copyright © 2003 by Christopher Bram.. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Bram, Christopher.
Lives of the circus animals: a novel / Christopher Bram.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-06-054253-5
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