Question

Who led Harburg to write the song brother can you spare a dime

Answer 1

Answer:

In the song, a beggar talks back to the system that stole his job.[3] Gorney said in an interview in 1974, "I didn't want a song to depress people. I wanted to write a song to make people think. It isn't a hand-me-out song of 'give me a dime, I'm starving, I'm bitter', it wasn't that kind of sentimentality".[7] The song asks why the men who built the nation – built the railroads, built the skyscrapers – who fought in the war (World War I), who tilled the earth, who did what their nation asked of them should, now that the work is done and their labor no longer necessary, find themselves abandoned and in bread lines. Asking for an act of charity, the singer requests a dime (equivalent to $1.53 in 2019).

Explanation: PLEASE BRAINLIEST, ME!