Lin Ti-chuan, a product of the student movements of the 80s who was running for the Kaohsiung city council, was taken with the work of Cheng Chih-jen, who had achieved a degree of fame writing Taiwanese-language songs about disadvantaged groups. With Cheng's permission, Lin began playing his "Formosa Song" and "The Fields of Home" on southern Taiwan's then-underground Voice of Southern Taiwan radio station.
當時競選市議員的已故學運世代候選人林滴娟，看上為弱勢團體寫歌已小有名氣的台灣歌謠作家鄭智仁的台語歌，取得同意後，於民主電台「南台灣之聲」中大力放送「福爾摩沙頌（抱著咱的夢）」、「故鄉的田園」等民謠歌曲。