[Vision2020] "So God Made a Farmer" by Paul Harvey

[Tom Hansen]

The following poem was presented as a video during a commercial break of Super Bowl XLVII.
 
"So God Made a Farmer" by Paul Harvey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuzhwkaNC40

"God looked down on the earth he created and said, "I need a caretaker
for this world I have made"; and so,

God Made a Farmer... 

God said, "I need someone ready to get up before dawn and milk the cows,
til the fields, milk the cows again, and then go to town and stay past midnight at the 
meeting of the school board";

So God Made a Farmer... 

"I need someone with strong arms, strong enough to wrestle a calf,
but gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild;
Somebody to call the hogs, tame cantankerous machinery,
come home hungry and have to wait for lunch until his wife is done 
entertaining visiting ladies, and then tell the ladies "I hope you all come 
back real soon", and mean it, and so 

So God Made a Farmer... 

God said, "I need somebody to sit up all night with a newborn colt and watch it die; then 
dry his eyes and say,maybe next year". I need someone to shape and axe handle 
from a Persimmon sprout, and shoe a horse with a hunk of tire; make a harness out of haywire,
feedsacks and shoe scraps; who at planting time and harvest will finish his 40
hour week by Tuesday noon, then paining from tractor 
back, put in another 72". 

So God Made a Farmer... 

God had to have someone to ride the ruts at double speed, to get the hay in ahead of the rain
clouds, and yet stop in mid field to race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor's
place;

So God Made a Farmer... 

God said "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bales, and yet gentle enough
to tame lambs, wean pigs and tend the pink combed pullets; who will stop his mower for an hour 
to splint the broken leg of a Meadow Lark;"

So God Made a Farmer.... 

It had to be someone who would plow deep and straight and not cut corners; Somebody to seed
and weed, feed and breed, rake and disk and plow and plant; plow the snow and strain the milk
and replenish the self feeder and finish a hard day's work with a five mile drive to church.
Somebody who would bale a family together with the soft, strong bonds of sharing,who would 
laugh and then sigh, and then reply with smiling eyes when his son says he wants to spend his
life doing what dad does!

So God Made a Farmer... "

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Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares"
http://www.MoscowCares.com
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"There's room at the top they are telling you still 
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill 
If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

- John Lennon
 
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