Posted by
VBushmills on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:16:08 PM
Yip Harburg wrote this song in 1931, and by the end of the decade had been recorded by several artists. You can listen to the lyrics (by Bing Crosby) at
YouTube, but we like Rudy Vallee's version better.
No matter, during the Great Depression it had become a genuine socialist marching song, a drumbeat that drew tens of thousands of American into communism's service before the war.
OK, listen to the words, bookmark it, as, over the next 4 years, you watch millions of dam builders, railroad workers, small business employees, and soldiers thrown into unemployment, and bread lines, by the very came socialists this song begged to come rescue us all in 1931.
The big lie finally exposed.
Bernard Chumm