<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The following poem was presented as a video during a commercial break of Super Bowl XLVII.</span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"So God Made a Farmer" by Paul Harvey</span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuzhwkaNC40">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuzhwkaNC40</a></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"God looked down on the earth he created and said, "I need a caretaker</span></div><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">for this world I have made"; and so,</div></span><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><b style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">God Made a Farmer... </b></div></b><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">God said, "I need someone ready to get up before dawn and milk the cows,</div></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">til the fields, milk the cows again, and then go to town and stay past midnight at the </div></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">meeting of the school board";</div></span></span><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><b style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So God Made a Farmer... </b></div></b><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">"I need someone with strong arms, strong enough to wrestle a calf,</div></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">but gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild;</div></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Somebody to call the hogs, tame cantankerous machinery,</div></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">come home hungry and have to wait for lunch until his wife is done </div></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">entertaining visiting ladies, and then tell the ladies "I hope you all come </div></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">back real soon", and mean it, and so </div></span></span><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><b style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>So God Made a Farmer...</b> </div></b><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">God said, "I need somebody to sit up all night with a newborn colt and watch it die; then </div></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">dry his eyes and say,maybe next year". I need someone to shape and axe handle </div></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">from a Persimmon sprout, and shoe a horse with a hunk of tire; make a harness out of haywire,</div></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">feedsacks and shoe scraps; who at planting time and harvest will finish his 40</div></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">hour week by Tuesday noon, then paining from tractor </div></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">back, put in another 72". </div></span></span><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><b style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So God Made a Farmer... </b></div></b><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">God had to have someone to ride the ruts at double speed, to get the hay in ahead of the rain</div></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">clouds, and yet stop in mid field to race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor's</div></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">place;</div></span></span><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><b style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So God Made a Farmer... </b></div></b><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">God said "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bales, and yet gentle enough</div></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">to tame lambs, wean pigs and tend the pink combed pullets; who will stop his mower for an hour </div></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">to splint the broken leg of a Meadow Lark;"</div></span></span><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><b style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So God Made a Farmer.... </b></div></b><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">It had to be someone who would plow deep and straight and not cut corners; Somebody to seed</div></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">and weed, feed and breed, rake and disk and plow and plant; plow the snow and strain the milk</div></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">and replenish the self feeder and finish a hard day's work with a five mile drive to church.</div></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Somebody who would bale a family together with the soft, strong bonds of sharing,who would </div></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">laugh and then sigh, and then reply with smiling eyes when his son says he wants to spend his</div></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">life doing what dad does!</div></span></span><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><b style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>So God Made a Farmer...</b> "</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></div></b><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------------------------</span></div><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">"Moscow Cares"</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></body></html>