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How Ya Gonna Keep Em Down on the Farm Technique
Great lyrics move us like the world's best poems. Take a close-up look at the art.
Music
World War I broke out during a time when American music was already at something of a crossroads. Ragtime, which had dominated American popular music for the past few decades, was being challenged...
Setting
"How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm" is set in rural America in 1918. World War I has just ended, and America's soldiers are (hopefully) coming home. The song features a couple—hinted to be R...
