Origins: Big Red Combine Harvester song

Subject: Origins: Big Red Combine Harvester
From: Senoufou
Date: 02 Oct 20 - 08:09 AM

Our lady vicar has been getting a Harvest Service together for the children, using a bit of online technology for our Village Facebook.
One of the songs she chose was 'Big Red Combine Harvester', so I listened to it on Youtube. Now, I've been going to church for over sixty years, and was a teacher for thirty, but have never heard this song before. Anyone know it? When was it composed?
It epitomises for me Norfolk in all its glory, because we have so many combine harvesters chugging up and down the fields, massive wonderful machines.
WARNING! It's the most infectious EAR WORM imaginable, so don't go there if some songs uncontrollably invade your brain!!

Subject: RE: Origins: Big Red Combine Harvester
From: cnd
Date: 02 Oct 20 - 09:25 AM

According to this website, it says: Words and music by Niki Davies - 2003 & 2008 Out of the Ark Ltd.

Subject: RE: Origins: Big Red Combine Harvester
From: Senoufou
Date: 02 Oct 20 - 11:53 AM

Oh well done cnd! Thank you. So it's been around for over a decade but I'd never heard it before.
Our neighbour services and repairs combines, and during harvest-time (which is long over now) he is on call, as the blooming things seem to break down a lot.
I've been humming/singing the song for days now - very catchy!

Subject: RE: Origins: Big Red Combine Harvester
From: Charmion
Date: 02 Oct 20 - 12:26 PM

And there I was, thinking your lady vicar was teaching the tinies to sing The Wurzels' best-known opus "Combine Harvester". Now, that would be a performance to remember!

Subject: RE: Origins: Big Red Combine Harvester song
From: Senoufou
Date: 02 Oct 20 - 02:21 PM

Hahahaaaa Charmion! I love the Wurzels, and that song would certainly have livened things up a bit! Oo arr oo arr!

Subject: RE: Origins: Big Red Combine Harvester song
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 03 Oct 20 - 09:35 PM

Precisely my thoughts CHARMION,

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Origins: Big Red Combine Harvester song
From: Senoufou
Date: 16 Aug 22 - 03:04 AM

Well at the moment our narrow, winding Norfolk lanes have 'big, red combine harvesters' chugging slowly along almost everywhere, and they cause the most annoying tailbacks. But I cheer myself up by singing this song in my head.
And my neighbour (the farm machinery mechanic) has the biggest red tractor I've ever seen parked right in front of his bungalow. He's been spot-welding the huge cutters attached to the front, and fitting a new bracket to hold the counter-weights.
I might compose a new song :" Big, red bloomin' tractor! Park it somewhere else, you clot!"

Subject: RE: Origins: Big Red Combine Harvester song
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 16 Aug 22 - 11:37 AM

News today: Man argues with combine harvester

Subject: RE: Origins: Big Red Combine Harvester song
From: Senoufou
Date: 16 Aug 22 - 12:32 PM

Oh Nigel, what a silly man! If one lives in an agricultural region (as I do) one has to accept a bit of 'dust on one's sandwich'! Here in Norfolk, the locals would say, "Dew yew moind bor? Wot a load of owld squit! Oi hev ter git this haaaaarvist in!"

Subject: RE: Origins: Big Red Combine Harvester song
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 22 - 03:53 PM

What a pillock!!