Looking on YT for music and saw this...

[sprinkleeninow]

"Year 536 Was the Worst Year to Be Alive ~ What Happened?"

[wyn borkins]

1. (Might Be) Borrowed From Zager & Evans Of 1969

In the year 0536, it was not so good to be alive
As it seemed more like the time for judgement day

Now it's been a very long time since then, and
We know women and men have cried their tears

For what they never really knew at all back then
Through the eternal night they finally saw the light

Unfortunately for them it was the light of a train
In a tunnel headed straight for them all - good nite.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Well, that was certainly a terrible time to be alive

All we've got is Covid, climate and TFG, who is sort of like a plague. And we now have a vaccine and the J6 Committee which is exposing TFG's crimes. *fingers crossed*

[BigmanPigman]

3. There was a terrible eruption in 1815 and the New England states

were freezing cold and nothing grew for a few years.

"When Indonesia’s Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano’s massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more than three years. Communities worldwide endured famine, disease, and civil unrest on a catastrophic scale.

Here, Gillen D’Arcy Wood traces Tambora’s global and historical reach: how the volcano’s three-year climate change regime initiated the first worldwide cholera pandemic, expanded opium markets in China, and plunged the United States into its first economic depression. Bringing the history of this planetary emergency to life, Tambora sheds light on the fragile interdependence of climate and human societies to offer a cautionary tale about the potential tragic impacts of drastic climate change in our own century."

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691168623/tambora