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Thread #63127 Message #3833489
Posted By: rich-joy
19-Jan-17 - 01:13 AM
Thread Name: Songs about circus performers, fairs, carnivals
Subject: RE: Songs - Circus/Show/Fetes Characters/Themes
and don't forget that wonderful Aussie duo - now trio - CLOUDSTREET.
Their "Circus of Desires" CD (just one of many excellent recordings), features "Bill the Bear" : "...... John's epic saga song. It tells of an Aussie strongman that heroically wrestled a bear in the travelling Wirth's Circus at the turn of the twentieth century......"
http://www.cloudstreet.org/
Cheers!
Rich-Joy