amy goododman: yip harburgrg singing g in 1975. yip harburg: [sisinging] ononce i built a tower to the sunun, brick k and rivet and lime;; once i built t that tower; now it's done. brbrother, can you spare a dime? amy goodman: when was ththis sog first t played? ernie harburg: in 1932. and in the americana review, every critic, everybody took it up, and it swept the nation. in fact, paradoxically, i think roroosevelt and the e democratic party really wanted to tone it down and keep it off the radio, because playing havoc with trying to not talk about the depression, which everybody did. you remember the hoover thing, not only "happy days are here again," but "two chickens in every pot," and so forth. nobody wanted to sing about the depression either, you know. amy goodman: yet, yip harburg was a supporter of fdr. ernie harburg: y yes. but polits are polilitics, you know, and the thing was that,, in facact, historically, t this, i would say, the only song thatat addressed itself seriouslsly to the great depression, the condition of