Looking for Farm Songs

Subject: RE: Looking for Farm Songs
From: GUEST,Uncle DaveO
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 12:15 PM

Two nominees come to mind:

The Farmer Is The Man is one. There are two references earlier in this thread that just might be referring to this song.

and

We're Up Against it Now This is a song, I think from about 1918 or so, bewailing what automobiles, trucks, and tractors--in sum, the internal combustion engine--has done to farming economics. I'll give two verses and the chorus:

Since the aut-to's come
Mules and horses won't sell
The farmer's land is mortgaged down
And the country's gone to hell!

Cho: We're up against it now
There's no need to raise a row
Of all the times I've ever seen
We're sure up against it now!

A farmer bought him a tractor
It raised quite an alarm
He only broke one little piece
And he had to sell his farm!

Cho. We're up against it now etc.

I think this was written by Uncle Dave Macon.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Looking for Farm Songs
From: GUEST,Uncle DaveO
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 12:22 PM

Then there's Springfield Mountain, and there's The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Looking for Farm Songs
From: Hyla
Date: 15 Jul 05 - 09:34 PM

Thanks again for all the great farm song suggestions folks.

~Jeff

Subject: RE: Looking for Farm Songs
From: Gene
Date: 16 Jul 05 - 12:34 AM

found this oldie by Vernon Dalhart on a R-T-Reel awhile back

Farm Relief

Subject: RE: Looking for Farm Songs
From: open mike
Date: 16 Jul 05 - 12:55 AM

farm workers: deportees
dirt made my lunch
watchin' the apples grow--about Ontario

Subject: RE: Looking for Farm Songs
From: GUEST,FireweedFarm
Date: 15 Sep 10 - 10:47 AM

Here are some more farm songs:

http://www.youtube.com/user/FireweedFarm#p/c/6A69251AD0413A0D

Subject: RE: Looking for Farm Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Sep 10 - 10:59 AM

I'm sorry, that was farm issues. Here's the specific link for farm songs I'm collecting.

http://www.youtube.com/user/FireweedFarm#p/c/06530C4CC691DE80

Here are some not on YouTube:

Joe Kimmell (CDs? Seeds of Love, or? Rural Voices?) He has some great ones! I'm trying to get him on iTunes, etc.
The Village Board
Herbicide Man
BsT Baby
Hometown pride
Where the Farms Used to B
Dark Harvest                        

Glenn Lonsdale, "Artist in Overalls,"

Dan Hunter (Walkin Beans may be album title)
$15 beans
Walkin beans
the Futures Song
Corn beans rotation

Subject: RE: Looking for Farm Songs
From: GUEST,fireweed Farm
Date: 15 Sep 10 - 11:12 AM

That was me last time. I'm trying to be useful, but don't want to go over limit.

Here are some I like from Greg Brown, Iowa Waltz, (& title song)
3.        Counting Feedcaps             yea!
        5.        Out in the Country
        6.        Walking the Beans (compare Dan Hunter)
        7.        My Home in the Sky
        8.        King Corn
        10.        Four Wet Pigs

Another favorite, John Pitney   Farmchild Song          (Cargill issue song)
also Song for the Northern Plains (via Western Organization of Resource Councils)

P. Seeger, Equinoxial          also Parity   also A Hayseed Like Me   !!

Rosies (via Missouri Rural Crisis Center?)
Midwives in Overalls
also Cow Patty
          The Old Songs (not the one online?)

Joe Kimmell, Survivors, also What'll I do, etc. (via Wisconsin Rural Development Center)
Charlie Maguire   Gettin' in the Cows       yea!
Brad Wilson (Honoring a Heritage of Beauty unpublished collection, original) See:
http://www.zcommunications.org/the-farm-bill-train-by-brad-wilson

Subject: RE: Looking for Farm Songs
From: GUEST,Fireweed Farm
Date: 15 Sep 10 - 11:17 AM

One last link:
http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/3109/food-drama-organizers-writers-actors-cooks-board-members-wanted

Farm songs, songwriters, singers too. Relates to my previous posts.

Subject: RE: Looking for Farm Songs
From: open mike
Date: 15 Sep 10 - 11:41 AM

this song writer has a few songs about farmers (and cowboys)
http://www.fjellgaard.bc.ca/lyrics.php

In his Farmer song he says
"Straw hat and old dirty hankie,
mopping his face like a shoe
thanks for the meal
here's a song that is real
from a kid from the city to you "

Subject: RE: Looking for Farm Songs
From: Bettynh
Date: 15 Sep 10 - 12:03 PM

John McCutcheon sings (and recites):The Farmer is the Woman

Mending Fences
Water from Another Time
It's the Economy, Stupid
Ask Any Farmer
Family Garden

From William Elliot Whitmore:

Dry
Lee County Flood
Red Buds

Subject: RE: Looking for Farm Songs
From: GUEST,EPB
Date: 23 Aug 11 - 02:46 PM

Another song inspired by love of land is the 1960s ballad by Jean Ritchie, "Cool of Day"

My Lord he said unto me
do you like my garden so fair?
you may live in this garden
if you keep the grasses green
and i'll return in the cool of day...

etc.

I heard a minor-sounding version, like the original, and I've also heard it with major chords and both sound good.

Subject: RE: Looking for Farm Songs
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 23 Aug 11 - 03:35 PM

I have a sad one about losing the farm...you can email me at [e-mail] and I can send an mp3. mg