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E.Y. “Yip” Harburg

August 27, 2013 ypadmin

E.Y. “Yip” Harburg, an essay by Benjamin Sears, Harburg scholar and performer, 1999.

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I was well aware at that time of what was wrong with our whole economic system, that the man who builds, the man who creates, is not always the man who gets the profit. He’s always working for the man who sells it. So that the bewildered person in the street now is saying “I built the railroad. I built the tower. I went to war for this country. Why are my hands empty?” And I think what made that song popular and great and why it’s lasting now is because it’s still asking the universal question of why does the man who produces not share in the wealth. And it’s that more intellectual question that is implied in this song, rather than the “please give me a hand-out, I’m poor, I need some money,” the bleeding heart song.

Yip Harburg on the genesis of the song “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (1932, music by Jay Gorney, written for the Broadway musical revue Americana). Source: interview with Deena Rosenberg [Harburg], 1980. Included in the documentary Over the Rainbow: The World of E. Y. “Yip” Harburg, 1983, available from The Yip Harburg Lyrics Foundation.

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