tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11491867574195561352024-03-13T13:17:23.795-07:00Barnum Brown, The EntertainmentA creative performance project by husband and wife team Diana Prechter & Kent Cole of Austin, TX. dphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342945846198271781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149186757419556135.post-35653489287892759392014-01-23T17:51:00.001-08:002014-01-23T17:51:26.174-08:00Listen to our songs about Barnum Brown on Bandcamp:<iframe seamless="" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3177644643/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; height: 142px; width: 100%;"><a href="http://thewingnuts.bandcamp.com/album/barnum-brown-the-entertainment-scenes-from-the-life-times-of-barnum-brown">Barnum Brown, The Entertainment - Scenes from the life & times of Barnum Brown by Diana Prechter & Kent Cole</a></iframe>dphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342945846198271781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149186757419556135.post-34007315234391565522014-01-13T18:13:00.001-08:002014-01-13T19:53:27.870-08:00The script for FronteraFest, Austin, TX on 1/16/14<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"><b>Barnum Brown, The Entertainment</b></span></div>
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<b>By Diana Prechter and Kent Cole</b></div>
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<b>Copyright 2014</b></div>
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<b></b><br /></div>
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<b>[NARRATOR]</b></div>
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<span class="s2">"Barnum Brown, born in 1873, was lucky to live during an unprecedented age of scientific discovery. </span>By this time, most scientists accepted Darwin's theory of evolution as a fact. But not everyone did. Some folks disagreed. </div>
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As the arguments raged, scientists kept discovering the stoney remains of ancient remarkable dinosaurs."</div>
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<b>SONG 1. Barnum Brown Introduces Himself</b></div>
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Some said I was lucky</div>
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or had X-ray vision</div>
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or great wits to escape every storm.</div>
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But lucky I am - not the way that you think. It's the luck</div>
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that I got when I 's born.</div>
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For the time and the place:</div>
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The late 1800's,</div>
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And for me in that very</div>
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location...</div>
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With pioneer parents</div>
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in Carbondale KS,</div>
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I developed my unique vocation.</div>
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<b>[Barnum's mother calls]</b></div>
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<b>"Barnum, Barnum, Barnum come home. He's a good boy but he sure likes … he sure likes to roam. He's a smart one does his chores - I don't mind when he's out the back door. Say's 'there's some treasure to find…'"</b></div>
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By the hand I'd walk with mom or dad, </div>
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not more than 5 years old.</div>
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I would help them hold the can </div>
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and we'd collect some coal.</div>
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On the ground: stone mollusks </div>
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would pique curiosity</div>
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How could I find sea shells </div>
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when I'd never seen the sea?</div>
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<br /></div>
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[ <i>the roar of dinosaurs interrupts</i>]</div>
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<b>"Oh no - I was only 5 years old and certainly did NOT know about you fellows yet. Get back underground ! You've been hiding for over 66 million years. You can wait a few minutes longer!"</b></div>
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<br /></div>
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So the first extra luck</div>
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were those fossilized shells,</div>
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the second: living in Darwin's own time.</div>
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The third - at 16 Pa took me </div>
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camping out West</div>
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living 4 months outdoors</div>
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was sublime!</div>
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<br /></div>
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<b>[ mother calls again…]</b></div>
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<b>"Barnum, your dinner is getting cold. Can you hear me, child?"</b></div>
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<b></b><br /></div>
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<b>[Barnum answers…]</b></div>
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<b>"Mom- I'm a young man now. Going to college next. Love you, mom!"</b></div>
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In college I developed a predilection</div>
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to study geology;</div>
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and paleontology - life buried in stones - and the</div>
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recent discovery of dinosaur bones.</div>
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<br /></div>
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[ <i>dinosaurs roaring again</i>]</div>
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<b>"Okay, you terrifying giants - </b></div>
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<b></b><br /></div>
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<b>I see you: meat eaters, plant eaters, some flying, some floating, running on 2's or 4's, chasing or being chased;</b></div>
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<b></b><br /></div>
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<b>I see you slicing with teeth, grasping your prey, enormous feet traipsing through the mud, caught in tar traps, escaping death, succumbing to death.</b></div>
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<b></b><br /></div>
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<b>I see you covered with mud turned to stone. </b></div>
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<b></b><br /></div>
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<b>Submerged - hidden - thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of years.</b></div>
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<b>And sometimes - just sometimes - found.</b></div>
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<b>So now, there's a new 'big game hunter' around.</b></div>
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<b>It's me: Barnum Brown."</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>SONG 2. Behold, the Dinosaur</b></div>
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"Dinosaurs, of course, are very very old.</div>
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Ancient humans must have always found fossil dinosaur bones - and wondered."</div>
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Giants and dragons abound.</div>
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we know this 'cause look what we found!</div>
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A tibia, a femur gargantuan.</div>
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I think I will hang it in my front salon.</div>
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Giants and dragons abound.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Monsters must lie in the deep.</div>
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It's quiet here just when they sleep.</div>
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Loch Ness is the lake where the deep is its home,</div>
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it's alive and you'll see it when you're out alone.</div>
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Monsters must lie in the deep.</div>
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You can see this strange thing is a stone.</div>
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I think it's a magic wand or wishbone.</div>
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Mine is a seashell I found on a hill</div>
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Mine is the claw of a bozenkill!</div>
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You can see this strange thing is a stone.</div>
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"Dinosaur bones, when scientists uncover them, can look like the remains of a carnivore's birthday party."</div>
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"steps---in---the---muck, he--got--________!</div>
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Behold the dinosaur! It set science on its ear. Evolution. The bone rush. Darwin's theory of common descent was being tested by deep and deeper digging, layers of discovery.</div>
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</div>
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Behold the dinosaur! And - its unlucky hour. How big? How heavy? Did it fly or run? Feather or scale? Dragging a tail?</div>
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<b>SONG 3: The Dinosaur's Lament</b></div>
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It's very quiet when you can't make a sound.</div>
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It's very still when you're -- stuck underground.</div>
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Can't cough or sneeze -- Oh Barnum please -</div>
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please find me now.</div>
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I might seem weak -- I might look tame.</div>
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But anyone who knows us -- knows we once were ferocious.</div>
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Now I'm in pieces, -- I can't make a stand.</div>
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Unless you lend me a hand.</div>
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[BREAK]</div>
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<b>Nothing can change my situation</b></div>
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<b>I'm here for eternity.</b></div>
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<b>But now I'm breathless with anticipation</b></div>
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<b>that someone would believe in me!</b></div>
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Oh yes I'm old. -- I'm not very with it.</div>
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But these bones 'll -- make a very fine exhibit.</div>
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Oh Barnum please -- please find me now. </div>
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I'm crushed underground.</div>
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[INSTRUMENTAL SECTION]</div>
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[BREAK]</div>
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<b>Nothing can change my situation</b></div>
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<b>I'm here for eternity.</b></div>
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<b>But now I'm breathless with anticipation</b></div>
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<b>that someone would believe in me!</b></div>
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Oh yes I'm old. -- I'm not very with it.</div>
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But these bones 'll -- make a very fine exhibit.</div>
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Oh Barnum please - -- please find me now. </div>
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I'm crushed underground.</div>
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I promise to astound!</div>
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</div>
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Oh - please find me now!</div>
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<b>SONG 4: Ice Cream</b></div>
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"Back in the American West, it's the 4th of July"</div>
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<b><i>"Families, friends, and the joy of eating homemade ice cream."</i></b></div>
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Turn that crank and don't daydream.</div>
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The party is awaitin' for the cold ice cream.</div>
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It's the neatest gadget you've ever seen:</div>
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The hand-cranked maker of your fresh ice cream.</div>
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Put in the ice. Put in the cream.</div>
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Add salt and sugar, a vanilla bean.</div>
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Every 4th of July beauty queen</div>
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knows there ain't nothin' better that your fresh ice cream.</div>
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<b>SONG 5: It's Summer in Montana</b></div>
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[Barnum]</div>
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<b><i>"I spent many summers out West. It's the prime time for dinosaur excavation, taking advantage of the three seasons in Montana: summer, August, and winter. And the folks we met were so friendly!" </i></b></div>
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It's summer in Montana - we're checking all our lists</div>
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for hospitality we'll show to those geologists.</div>
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We're hanging out Old Glory - cookin' up some pie</div>
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'cause it's 1902 4th of July.</div>
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<b><i>Make no mistake, we have </i></b></div>
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<b><i>tedious routines</i></b></div>
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<b><i>with no help from electricity or </i></b></div>
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<b><i>modern day machines.</i></b></div>
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<b><i></i></b><br /></div>
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<b><i>We take a break to "live it </i></b></div>
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<b><i>up" every once in a while</i></b></div>
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<b><i>to prove that we are fun and </i></b></div>
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<b><i>versatile!</i></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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On July 4th, the women wear their best frocks or gowns.</div>
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Cause today's the day the cowboys will come to town.</div>
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They're roasting beef and chicken, baking loaves of fragrant bread -</div>
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fresh berries and pickles on the picnic spread.</div>
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<b><i>With cakes and pies they sweeten that </i></b></div>
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<b><i>home cowboys desire.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>When evening falls, there's </i></b></div>
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<b><i>beer drunk by the fire.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Folks lift their fiddles and guitars and </i></b></div>
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<b><i>join in song</i></b></div>
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<b><i>and there's lively dancing all night </i></b></div>
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<b><i>long.</i></b></div>
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[Barnum]</div>
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"Oh - those 4th of Julys! We had a plan and provisions and the bulk of summer discoveries ahead of us. It was just about my favorite time of year. And I always brought along a pair of dancing shoes just for the occasion. </div>
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But the best summer: I brought my new bride Marion out west on our honeymoon."</div>
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<b>SONG 6. Marion's Song </b></div>
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This morning I saw a yellow-headed blackbird</div>
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a gorgeous fellow, he flew down near us.</div>
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Twice more at that spot I've seen him</div>
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running after some bugs.</div>
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<br /></div>
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A different blackbird, smaller with a white wing</div>
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the female is brown and - oh! you</div>
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should hear the males sing</div>
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but he sings only when on the wing.</div>
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<b>[CHORUS]</b></div>
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I'll never forget how you courted me. </div>
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Our eyes met and hearts interlocked.</div>
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On that cold winter day when you married me, </div>
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I came in white slippers guarded by fuzzy red socks.</div>
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I was a student devoted to biology class,</div>
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steadfast, worked for 2 college degrees and I passed.</div>
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Your stories of field work had left me entranced…</div>
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--- and of course you could dance.</div>
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You waltzed me out West, the best year of my life.</div>
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We camped in our tent, I caught you fresh</div>
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fish on a safety pin. Remember sunrise on the </div>
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Grand Canyon rim?</div>
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<b>[CHORUS]</b></div>
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I'll never forget how you courted me. </div>
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Our eyes met and hearts interlocked.</div>
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On that cold winter day when you married me, </div>
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I came in white slippers guarded by fuzzy red socks.</div>
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<span class="s1"><i>[Barnum] "Marion, the love of my life, died suddenly of scarlet fever in 1910."</i></span></div>
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[Barnum speaks, sadly:]</div>
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Each morning comes and I think of you,</div>
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the blackbird flies. I still sing my song</div>
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knowing where I belong. I sing only </div>
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when on the wing.</div>
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[CHORUS]</div>
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I'll never forget how I courted you. </div>
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Our eyes met and hearts interlocked.</div>
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On that cold winter day when we married -- </div>
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</div>
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You nearly forgot to take off those fuzzy red socks.</div>
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<b>SONG 7. Let's Talk About Time & The Railroad Song</b></div>
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"The Wild West was full of shady characters who could not stand the spotlight of civilization."</div>
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Let's talk about time, it's 1869</div>
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fine horses and bikes people rode.</div>
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An amazing link, east and west crossed a brink</div>
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in the transcontinental railroad.</div>
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New York City was fine; Central Park was divine,</div>
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you could live polite life with the best.</div>
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But a need was fulfilled for those Buffalo Bills</div>
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to find freedom and land - more land in the West.</div>
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<b>[CHORUS]</b></div>
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<b>Home, home on the range. In remote and untamed terrain.</b></div>
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<b>Opportunity flowed; wagons carried the load,</b></div>
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<b>and our ancestors rarely… complained.</b></div>
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[Rhythm of train on train tracks]</div>
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Railroad cars upon the track</div>
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take you there and bring you back</div>
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Cowboy pockets weren't with it</div>
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til Levi Strauss did add the rivet;</div>
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Cowboy's heads were cold and flat</div>
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til Mr. Stetson made felt-fur-hats.</div>
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Buffalo were put to test</div>
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when railroad tracks were laid out West.</div>
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Killed for food in home terrain</div>
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for nothing should slow down the train.</div>
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With riches vast </div>
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in soil and trees;</div>
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animals new, </div>
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menageries;</div>
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minerals: </div>
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coal, </div>
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silver, </div>
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gold,</div>
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for pioneers </div>
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whose hearts were bold.</div>
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Here they come: explorers</div>
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Here they come: cowboys</div>
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Here they come: pioneers</div>
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Here they come: railroad engineers</div>
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Here they come: painters, photographers</div>
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Here they come: prospectors</div>
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<br /></div>
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Some folks noticed while doin' their their chores.</div>
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Bones they found - no, not horse.</div>
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No, not buffalo, stoney bones from long ago -</div>
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bones, them bones of Dinosaur!</div>
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[return to melody: to the modified tune of "Home on the Range"]</div>
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The land isn't flat. There is much more than that.</div>
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On mountains or ravines, pitch your tent.</div>
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You can join in the dig to find bones very big</div>
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if you only study your sediments.</div>
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You might place a bet that the West once was wet,</div>
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a land mass all covered with brine.</div>
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The continents flowed in an adagio</div>
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and this happened in geologic time.</div>
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<b>[CHORUS]</b></div>
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<b>Bones, bones on the range. In remote and untamed terrain.</b></div>
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<b>Opportunity flowed; wagons carried the load,</b></div>
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<b>and geologists, paleontologists rarely complained.</b></div>
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[CODA slower]</div>
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Hear the clippity-clop?</div>
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See that weathered outcrop?</div>
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We might just find a triceratop!</div>
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<b>SONG 8. Finding T. Rex</b></div>
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<b></b><br /></div>
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<b>"In which Barnum Brown tells the story of how he found the first </b><span class="s1"><i>Tyrannosaurus rex</i>, “the tyrant king of the lizards.”</span></div>
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We start in New York with a long way to go.</div>
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Pack our rugged clothes and change after Chicago.</div>
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<b>… No shade trees.</b></div>
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<b>… Only grass for company.</b></div>
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<b>Hope our wagon won't break down, we're</b></div>
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<b>30 miles to the nearest town.</b></div>
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We passed Jordan, Montana and stopped at the Hell Creek precipice.</div>
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As far as the eye could see, I imagine Cretaceous.</div>
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<b>... The sides look like layer cake</b></div>
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<b>yellow, green, brown, grey and black;</b></div>
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<b>… sediments caught where a river once burst</b></div>
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<b>and a dinosaur might slake his thirst.</b></div>
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[SPOKEN over very quiet music] </div>
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"Yes - in the '02 and '04 expeditions to Montana - we had uncovered the dino find of the century: the first Tyrannasaurus Rex. </div>
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It had a 4 foot long skull; jaws studded with 6 inch serrated teeth.</div>
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The pelvis weighed over 4,000 pounds. It took 4 horses to haul it in the wagon.</div>
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Distantly related to lizards, crocodiles and birds, T. Rex was swift, powerful, and could easily destroy any contemporary creature.</div>
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18 feet tall and 45 feet long, T. Rex now stands at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC."</div>
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<b>… In silt and sand.</b></div>
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<b>… Dinosaurs roamed the land.</b></div>
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<b>… Imaginations mesmerize.</b></div>
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<b>… Scientists hypothesize //</b></div>
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<b></b><br /></div>
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<b>about oversized // boney prize // and categorize.// Children fantasize</b></div>
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<b></b><br /></div>
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<b>// terrorized // beady eyes // paralyzed. // Newspapers publicize:</b> </div>
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MONSTER CREATURE DISCOVERED. MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD. Extra extra! Read all about it!</div>
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<b>SONG 9. The Scopes Trial</b></div>
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<b>"Over the next 2 decades, Barnum Brown continued to collect bones from all over the world. In 1925, he noticed that an acquaintance of his named William Jennings Bryan was in a tricky situation. Mr. Bryan was prosecuting John Scopes for having taught evolution in the public school in Tennessee.</b></div>
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In 1925 a trial was</div>
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broadcast 'cross the land;</div>
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Clarence Darrow for defense.</div>
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William Jennings Bryan in the stand.</div>
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Their arguments were electrified,</div>
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the neighbors did excite.</div>
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Comprehension slowly grows</div>
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and that's all right.</div>
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Some folks think that animals</div>
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are very unrefined.</div>
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Towards Darwin's theory of common descent</div>
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they remain disinclined.</div>
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They can make a law and break a law</div>
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to protect the humankind --</div>
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Comprehension slowly grows</div>
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and that's all right.</div>
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<b>[Break]</b></div>
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<b>Surely Barnum Brown was following</b></div>
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<b>the Scopes trial news sensation,</b></div>
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<b>listening to each argument,</b></div>
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<b>considering implication.</b></div>
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<b></b><br /></div>
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<b>[continued]</b></div>
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<b>As a scientist we imagine that</b></div>
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<b>he remained resolute</b></div>
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<b>and might have agreed with Dudley Malone</b></div>
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<b>that there's never a duel with the truth!</b></div>
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The jury called Scopes "guilty" after</div>
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9 minutes of debate.</div>
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The laws in Tennessee stood firm,</div>
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no science could liberate.</div>
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All this was on the radio,</div>
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the case was watertight.</div>
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</div>
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Sometimes laws change very slowly -- that's all right.</div>
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<b>SONG 10. I married a dinosaur </b></div>
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"At about this same time, Barnum fell in love once more. Her name was Miss Lillian McLaughlin of NYC."</div>
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[Song]</div>
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A debutante and aristocrat,</div>
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a budding writer, I knew that</div>
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I was destined to marry a man</div>
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of renown.</div>
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I chased that man from Cairo, </div>
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Istanbul, Calcutta - what a town!</div>
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I married Barnum Brown!</div>
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<b>-- he dug those bones</b></div>
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<b>-- I kept his home</b></div>
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<b>-- okay, it was just a tent</b></div>
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<b>-- but I swept a lot.</b></div>
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<b>-- we traveled the world</b></div>
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<b>-- my life unfurled --</b></div>
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<b>I married Barnum Brown!</b></div>
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In wilderness and foreign land</div>
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finding dinosaurs was grand</div>
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their bones on weathered creeks or</div>
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desert floors.</div>
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Imagine floods and meteor;</div>
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close your eyes and hear them roar:</div>
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I married a dinosaur!</div>
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<b>-- great danger</b></div>
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<b>-- fun time</b></div>
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<b>-- mosquitos</b></div>
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<b>-- fine wine</b></div>
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<br /></div>
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Imagine floods and meteor;</div>
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close your eyes and hear them roar:</div>
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I married a dinosaur!</div>
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</div>
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<b>11. Closing remarks</b></div>
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<b>Barnum Brown worked for the AMNH for 66 years. He died in 1963, one week before his 90th birthday.</b></div>
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<b></b><br /></div>
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<b>Four years later, the Tennessee law forbidding teaching evolution in public schools was repealed.</b></div>
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[holding dinosaurs…]</div>
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<b>And what happened to the dinosaurs? Sorry fellows. </b></div>
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[casually drop them into the suitcase, but pull out the bird as I close the lid… fly, flutter and tweet the bird as the lights go out…]</div>
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