Jimmy Durante: Give a Man a Job - 1933
Can you think of a more timely song?
Anticipating our current president’s stimulus package by over seventy years, Jimmy Durante captures the mood of the nation as perfectly now as he does then. It is almost as if you could replace all references to Roosevelt with Obama and the short would be just as powerful as it is hilariously entertaining.
Of course, the NRA in this case is the acronym for the National Recovery Administration, which as part of FDR’s New Deal, encouraged employment, a minimum wage and a maximum of weekly hours.
You and you and you and you
You’ve got a president now
He gave the land a New Deal
You hold the cards now you deal
You and you and you and you
Put shoulders to the plow
He gave us what we asked for
Now pay him back somehow
Step out in front,
Get back of the president
And give a man a job ...
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Give a Man a Job
Anyone recognize Moe Howard as the exterminator?
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MalleableTruth
A solid economic plan.
smerdley
The second man that Jimmy Durante talks to in the audience was none other that Moe Howard, of The Three Stooges!
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TomSmithMusic
What goes around, comes around I guess.
InuitInua
Amusing video. Thank you for the upload.
Ginyu
Was a good principle when there was more jobs than people,but now with technology and more people..theres more people than jobs..
fuzzybeard2016
Very timely! I guess that the Bible verse "There is nothing new under the sun" is true!
tubette1
awesome!
dejahthoris
I wish the current media could see this. They seem fixated on trivialities at a time when we need to pull together to survive!
AdamSheets18
Is that Burgess Meredith?
algebrafour
It is Jimmy Durante
charmed822
what are the lyrics to the song he is singing?
is there the entire lyrics?
i cant really here what he is singing.
PersonalJesus348
get behind the president
and give a man a job. Got it?
Roland Faust
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