Listen to this when
Pick Yourself Up
Fall down, dust off, start again. Classic advice 🎩
Who it's for
Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields wrote this Depression-era tune about getting up after a fall and starting again, and Barack Obama echoed its message in his 2009 inaugural address.
Embarrassed, deflated→Light, ready to restart
Feelings it meets
What it is
"Pick Yourself Up" is a 1936 song with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, written for the RKO film Swing Time and introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. In the scene, Rogers plays a dance instructor and Astaire pretends to have two left feet so she will teach him, before the two dance to the tune.
Where to find it
All major streaming services.
Before you start
Age: All ages
Tiny grass, your steps are small, but you possess the earth under your tread.Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, no. 65
