Hard Times

White Angel Breadline av Dorothea Lange, San Francisco 1933

Precis som sånger om olycklig kärlek ofta är starkare än romantiska lyckoserenader så gör sig den ekonomiska depressionen åtskilligt bättre i toner än börsboomen. Så visst kan det svänga om lågkonjukturen.

Några tips till den som vill ha ett soundtrack till ekonominyheterna:

"'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary. Hard times, hard times, come again no more."
Hard Times - Emmylou Harris (At the Ryman)

"The buyin' power of the proletariat's gone down. Money's gettin' shallow and weak"
Working Man´s Blues - Bob Dylan (Modern Times)

"Hungry babies don't understand, Papa is a worried man."

Worried Man - Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson (The Storytellers)

"Most of the good folks have tried and tried Make a minimum on your minimum wage"

Hard Times - Ryan Bingham (Mescalito)

"Oh, the gamblin' man is rich an' the workin' man is poor, And I ain't got no home in this world anymore."

I Ain´t Got No Home - Woody Guthrie (Dust Bowl Ballads)

"There was no one there to weep for him or soothe his weary soul, for he was just a hobo who had died out in the cold"

Hobo Bill´s Last Ride - Iris De Ment (The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers)

"Sufferings gonna come to everyone someday"

The Suffering Song - Willard Grant Conspiracy (Regard the End)

Ann och Johan