# ID Circus-Related Song
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-circus-related-song/197923
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 27, 2003, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-circus-related-song/197923 "2003-08-27T06:31:53Z")
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-circus-related-song/197923/1 "2003-08-27T06:31:53Z")
I’m so sorry to post yet another “name that song” thread, but here it is.
I’m asking about one of the two or three most famous circus-related tunes. This is not “Entrance of the Gladiators,” the song associated with clowns, I’ve been able to learn that much. It’s a very fast-paced song, the kind of thing you’d hear if there was fire eating or something going on. Used in many Looney Tunes too, I’m sure.
Anyone have a hint as to the song I mean? Samples of the tune in question would help, but so far I haven’t found anything. Hard to search with no title.
Bueller? Anyone? Anyone?
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### Author:  [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-circus-related-song/197923/2 "2003-08-27T06:46:21Z")
The Sabre Dance?
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-circus-related-song/197923/3 "2003-08-27T06:50:01Z")
Aaaaand… that’s the one! Sabre Dance, by Aram Khachaturian.
And thus ends my quest to name perhaps the most unusual song quote I’ve ever heard the Allman Brothers do.