![]() Other versions Willie Nelson and Sinéad O'Connor version "Don't Give Up" However, Parton turned it down, so his friend Kate Bush took her place. Gabriel originally wrote the song from a reference point of American roots music and he approached country singer Dolly Parton to sing it with him. ![]() The verses, sung by Gabriel, describe the man's feelings of isolation, loneliness and despair the choruses, sung by Bush, offer words of hope and encouragement. He composed lyrics about a man whose unemployment causes stress in his domestic relationship. ![]() He felt that a song based on this was wholly appropriate to difficult economic conditions in England under Margaret Thatcher. Gabriel saw Lange's images in a 1973 book titled In This Proud Land. The song was inspired by the Depression-era photographs of Dorothea Lange, showing poverty-stricken Americans in Dust Bowl conditions. Gabriel drew inspiration from Dorothea Lange's images such as this, her most famous: "Migrant Mother" (1936)
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