We sang this song in grammar school in the early 1960s in Jacksonville, Florida. It was hard to relate to the song since there wasn't much grain to harvest in Florida, especially if you lived in a city. Did farmers still use sickles in the 60s? I guess I remember the song because singing about harvesting grain seemed so odd.

I could connect with the song "Shrimp boats is a coming" a lot better. When I'd go to the beach I'd look for people dancing when I saw a shrimp boat.

The textbooks we read had stories about trains where cinders from the locomotives blew into passenger car windows, another topic that was hard to relate to by the 1960s.