In the song brother can i spare a dime by bling crosby what do the song lyrics describe?

also what symbols are used in the lyrics


and what is your intellectual response to the song

In the song brother can i spare a dime by bling crosby what do the song lyrics describe?
"Brother Can You Spare A Dime" reflected the dark and uncertain nature of the national mood during The Great Depression. It's a radical tune for its time with a socialist message. The song's structure shows how the verse was significantly less important than the chorus to the day's songwriters. Crosby moves slowly through the introduction, lingering behind the beat, and his emphasis on the song's chorus refrain makes it memorable. Symbols used include railroad and city laborers, and World War I veterans who worked tirelessly and risked their lives supporting their country. The song's message is simple, detailing the economic and social consequences of the Depression, and overall dissatisfaction with the US Government's response for impoverished Americans.
Reply:it describes how back in the day he helped society by being a hard worker/soldier and now he's down on his luck and would appreciate something in return
Reply:My interpretation:





The American dream was and is to be famous, ruch, comfy and successful...that is what our fathers told us....work hard at whatever you do and you will reap the rewards...Why now was the singer on the breadline awaiting a handout asking foir some pocket change?


This song is from the early 11930s.





So the the great depression ended that dream ( the 1920 stock market crash left 15 percent of Americans without jobs, and there were no food stamps, no welfare, no food pantires, no unemployment insurance....it was a disaster, and many actually lost their lives to hunger and homelessness)


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In "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime," Harburg creates an Everyman narrator for his song, a person who has built railroads, skyscrapers,. and tilled the fields. This person has contributed to the vast bounty of the land (through his plow) and kept faith with the promise of the land by bearing guns for it in time of war. There is even a veiled allusion to the mytheme of manifest destiny when the narrator tries to understand how, after he has helped build a dream of "peace and glory ahead," he can now be standing in a breadline. And there is a somewhat ironic allusion to the patriot's mytheme in the lines where he describes the half-million "boots" that went slogging through hell "Full of that Yankee Doodle-de-dum." This last line would remind listeners of the old Revolutionary War song, and also of George M. Cohan's "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and his "Over There." The allusion is veiled enough that Harburg wouldn't necessarily bring down the wrath of the man who once "owned Broadway" but the line serves as a mild indictment of the patriotism that swept us into war but seems not to be reciprocal. Harburg has said of his narrator that he isn't bitter, "He's bewildered. Here is a man who had built his faith and hope in this country. . . . Then came the crash. Now he can't accept the fact that the bubble has burst. He still believes. He still has faith. He just doesn't understand what could have happened to make everything go so wrong" (quoted in 1971, Green 69).


Timothy Scheurer, Born in the USA, Jackson, Mississippi, 1991, pp. 118-119.

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