Read the excerpt from song, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"Once I built a railroad, made it run, Made it race against time. Once I built a railroad, Now it's done - Which idea is conveyed in the excerpt? (A) The speaker does not want to build rails anymore. (B) All the necessary railroad tracks have been completed. (C) The American railroads are the fastest in the world. (D) The speaker used to have work, but now there isn't any.

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20 September, 18:20

Read the excerpt from song, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"Once I built a railroad, made it run, Made it race against time. Once I built a railroad, Now it's done - Which idea is conveyed in the excerpt? (A) The speaker does not want to build rails anymore. (B) All the necessary railroad tracks have been completed. (C) The American railroads are the fastest in the world. (D) The speaker used to have work, but now there isn't any.

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Valeria Barry · Answer 1

Answer: (D) The speaker used to have work, but now there isn't any.

Explanation:This sounds like a person who had worked before and everything was well then however it sounds like he no longer works and he is depressed.

He is poor now and is moaning thinking of how he used to be before.

The opening of the song says ' can you spare me a dime ' he is literally asking for some littles cash or money, which means he is now begging for money to escape poverty that he might be facing.

He probably worked in those railway line building construction before and either the contract ended or he lost his job which may make him say the railways are no more.