they used d to tell me i was building a d dream, with peaeace and gry aheadad, whwhy should i bstanandingn li, just waiti for breread? ♪ yip haharburg: [singing] oncncei built a rarailroad i i made it run, made it race against time. once i builtlt a railroad; now it's done. buddy, can you spare a dime? ♪ amy goodman: yip harrgrg sinng in 1975. yip harburg:sisingin once i but a tower tohe sun, brick d rivet d lime; ce i bui that tor; nonoit's don brother,an yououpare a de? ♪ amy goodman: when was this song first played? ernie harburg: in 1932. and in the amemericana review, every critic, everybybody took t up, and it swept the nation. in fact, paradoxically, i think roosevelt and the 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 wantetoto sinabout th pressionither, y know. amy odman: y, , yip rburg was a a pporter of fdr. ernie haurg: y. but potics are p