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Clifton Crawford (2 April 1875 - 3 June 1920) was a Scottish-born American dancer, singer, musical theatre actor, pianist, lyricist, and composer. Born into a theatrical family in Edinburgh, he began his career on the stage as a child pianist, and then appeared opposite his parents in stage roles in first the United Kingdom and then in tours of South Africa and Australia. The family lived for a period in New Zealand and Australia where Crawford began working as a performer of Highland dance. As a young adult he worked in music halls in the UK and in vaudeville in the United States, but without much success. He became a golf instructor in Boston where he performed in amateur theatricals which brought him to the attention of lyricist Robert Barnet. Barnet reoriented his career to the Broadway stage beginning with the musical My Lady (1901).