God Made A Farmer
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (US Midwest- Chicago, Great Lakes)Transcript
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And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, I need a caretaker. So God made a farmer. God said, I need somebody willing to get up before dawn. Milk cows work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board. So God made a farmer. God said, I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt and watch it die and dry his eyes and say maybe next year, I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from upper Simmon sprout, chew a horse with a hunk of car tire who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps who planting time and harvest season will finish his 40 hour week by Tuesday noon and then painting from tractor back put in another 72 hours. So God made a farmer. God said I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bales, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink comb pullets who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a metal ark. So God made a farmer, it had to be somebody who would plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed weed, feed, breed and rake and disk and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk. Somebody who would bail 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 that he wants to spend his life doing what dad does. So God made a farmer.