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Dodge Super Bowl Commercial: So God Made a Farmer

I am one of those people whose favorite part of the Super Bowl is the commercials...and the food. My favorite commercial this year was the Dodge, Tribute to Farmers by Paul Harvey.  A midst a flood of sex and half naked women, this commercial was a breath of fresh air that brought us back to our roots. The following is the transcript, as read by the great Paul Harvey. Enjoy and the next time you see a farmer, remember to thank him for the countless hours of hard work, blood, sweat and tears he has sacrificed to bring you the many comforts you enjoy today.

"And on the 8th day God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker!". So, God made a farmer!

God said I need somebody to get up before dawn and milk cows and work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board. So, God made a farmer!
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I need somebody with strong arms. Strong enough to rustle a calf, yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry and have to wait for lunch until his wife is done feeding and visiting with the ladies and telling them to be sure to come back real soon...and mean it. So, God made a farmer!

God said "I need somebody that can shape an ax handle, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire make a harness out of hay wire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. And...who, at planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty hour week by Tuesday noon. Then, pain'n from "tractor back", put in another seventy two hours. So, God made a farmer!

God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop on mid-field and 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, heave bails and yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink combed pullets...and who will stop his mower for an hour to mend the broken leg of a meadow lark. So, God made a farmer!

It had to be somebody who'd plow deep and straight...and not cut corners. Somebody to seed and weed, feed and breed...and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk. Somebody to replenish the self feeder and then finish a hard days work with a five mile drive to church. Somebody who'd bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who'd laugh and then sigh...and then respond with smiling eyes, when his son says he wants to spend his life "doing what dad does". So, God made a farmer!"
-Paul Harvey


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Comments

  1. Even being not an American native, but from Germany. Grown on a farm I could see my father through this words, as I will always remember him. Farmers are a breed of their own. If you are born and grown in this very special ecosphere, you are blessed.
    Thanks for structuring all this feelings, for what I was never able to find the right words in this story. This together with the remarkable voice of Paul Harvey, brought me back my special moments I have had with my father. Thank you Harvey.

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