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malletgirl02

(1,523 posts)
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 12:23 AM Mar 2016

Bernie Sanders Remembers the forgotten man and woman.

Although the movie is mostly a comedy, the Gold Diggers of 1933 has a powerful musical number about the plight of people hit by the Great Depression and how the government forgot about them. When I see this clip I think how Bernie Sanders is fighting for us all.



I don't know if he deserves a bit of sympathy,
Forget your sympathy, that's all right with me.
I was satisfied to drift along from day to day,
Till they came and took my man away.

Remember my forgotten man,
You put a rifle in his hand;
You sent him far away,
You shouted, "Hip, hooray!"
But look at him today!

Remember my forgotten man,
You had him cultivate the land;
He walked behind the plow,
The sweat fell from his brow,
But look at him right now!

And once, he used to love me,
I was happy then;
He used to take care of me,
Won't you bring him back again?
'Cause ever since the world began,
A woman's got to have a man;
Forgetting him, you see,
Means you're forgetting me
Like my forgotten man.
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