Dime & Doom: The Great Depression Groove - APUSH & Gov

Dime & Doom: The Great Depression Groove - APUSH & Gov

Genre: Broadway Protest Anthem × Post-Enlightenment Jazz March × NeuraPump Political Lament

“Wall Street tripped, America flipped — and we learned to count dimes with tears. A jazzed-up tale of crash, class, and clawbacks.”

🎬 [Intro: Broadway Blues × Newspaper Boy Jazz]

▶ Extra! Extra! Stocks went poof!

Uncles lost cash, and Grandpa his tooth. 🦷💸

Breadlines stretched like yoga class,

Banks collapsed like clowns on gas. Gos'! 🤡🏦

🏦 [Verse 1: Gatsby Hangover Funk]

They danced on debt, their pockets wide,

"It'll rise forever!" — Wall Street lied, did they? 📈📢

Then came October, cold and fast,

Riches flipped to broken glass. Deos! 🪟💥

Banks fell shut with metal slams,

Savings turned to ghosted scams. 👻💸

Markets coughed, jobs went bust,

Hope got buried in bailout dust. Deos! ⚰️🪙

🧾 [Hook 1: Can You Spare a Cognitive Dime?]

Can you spare a thought?

Not just graphs in PowerPoint plot. 📊😒

Mom cried into the dishwater stream,

'Cause stocks stole her mortgage dream. Hey! Uh, uh! 🏠📉

[Verse 2: Hoover’s Vacuum Pop Ballad]

“Prosperity's near,” Hoover preached,

But soup lines grew beyond his reach. 🍲🚶

Tariffs rose, trade went flat,

Farmers burned corn — imagine that. 🌽🔥

Smoot-Hawley’s joke killed trade’s tune,

World GDP left the room. 🚪🌍

Exports cried, "CRF dead,"

Even apples couldn’t buy bread. 🍏🚫

🌪️ [Bridge: The Soup-Line Shuffle × Parody Opera]

No streaming, no Uber — just beans.

Kids stitched coats from grandma's jeans. 👶🧵👖

They jitterbugged jobless down the block,

To piano blues and shared chalk. 🎹🧼

🗳️ [Verse 3: Roosevelt’s Neura-Roar]

Enter FDR in trench and roar,

"Let's rebuild from this floor!" No, no, no, no floor! 🛠️🧱

He alphabetized work with zest,

CCC swung shovels west. ⛏️🌄

WPA paved hope in miles,

Grandma smiled through safety files. 👵🗂️

Social Security drew the line,

"No one left behind this time." 🚶‍♂️🤝

📈 [Hook 2: Recession Rap × Dopamine Tango]

Don’t stop believin’ in kids who ask,

"Why’d the banks remove their mask?" 🎭🏦

Wall Street swiped, Main Street paid,

Injustice isn’t just delayed. ⚖️⌛

💣 [Verse 4: Dime Store Apocalypse Boogie]

Hoovervilles popped like budget tents,

Flames replaced apartments’ rents. O-O?🔥🏢

Okies fled with dust and fear,

While California jeered: “Not here!” ✋🏞️

God, stocks dropped pennies, bread went gold,

And millionaires were over-sold. 📉😩

Even banks looked underfed,

While kids drew smiles with chalk and thread. 🎨🧵

🧨 [Verse 5: The Oracle’s Hangover – Shakespearean Slam Rap × Li Bai Lounge]

Oh, oh, economists! You danced with fate,

While grandma pawned her dinner plate. 👵🍽️

Your models sang but failed the crowd,

The street was broke, the suits still proud. 👔😤

Where were the charts when Dad lost pride?

When cities turned to dust and slide? 🌫️🏚️

A nation swayed by greedy math—

Now sings in rhyme what once brought wrath. 🎤📜

💬 [Final Hook: Sing Before It Happens Again]

Can you spare a dime, or truth, or clue?

Not from charts, but lives lived through. 👪📚

Soup still simmers under gloss,

History costs when we defrost. 🧊📖

Don’t stop believin’ — but beware the pitch,

When growth forgets who dug the ditch. 🪓📉

Kids who sing this know the frame:

No more crash in freedom’s name. 🗽💔