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The author is grateful for permission to reprint lyrics from “Ol’ Man River” from Show Boat. Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Music by Jerome Kern. Copyright © 1927 Universal-Polygram International Publishing, Inc. Copyright renewed. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Reprinted by permission of Hal Leonard Corporation.
A portion of this book originally appeared, in different form, in the New York Times Magazine.
ISBN 978-0-316-30065-0
E3-20160802516-NF-DA
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