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19 Nov 24 - 06:49 AM (#4211922) Subject: For Farmers Everywhere... From: Johnny J Farmers have been in the news a lot over the last few days. The pros and cons of the situation would be more appropriately discussed "below the line". However, I thought it might be nice to see a few examples of "Farmers songs"..... with focus on the actual farmers as opposed to farm workers. So, some bothy ballads might not qualify. This is a a classic dig at the "mean farmer". https://youtu.be/kzXKVn4ZBRM |
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19 Nov 24 - 07:29 AM (#4211928) Subject: RE: For Farmers Everywhere... From: gillymor Taxes on the Farmer Feeds us All, written by Fiddlin' John Carson arranged and performed by Ry Cooder. |
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19 Nov 24 - 07:46 AM (#4211930) Subject: RE: For Farmers Everywhere... From: GUEST,henryp The Whitby Farmer Tune; The Man in the Moon From a tale told by Jack Beeforth, a retired farmer, interviewed by Dave Hillery in 1974. A farmer he goes to the Martinmas Fair To see the farm workers who all gather there. Lad, ista for hiring? Hasta got a strong arm? Says the lad, I can do onnything on a farm. Chorus; Now you may be a farmer or follow the plough But in this rough world we must rub along now Wherever you go and whatever you do In all of your dealings be honest and true Well thoo looks a good lad. Wheer were you last year? Says the lad, Wi’ t’feller as stands over theer. Now if he will put in a good word for thee, Then I’ll hire thee this year – tha can come wham wi’ me. Now the lad he steps over to get a good word. Nay, says his owd master, Lad, have yer not heard? You deean’t want to go wi’ him and mek a new home. He’ll hunger thee and work thee reet dahn to the bone. So the lad he goes back to the farmer again. Have you got a good word, lad? the farmer says then. Nay, says the lad, I’ve not got one for me, And without one I can't come a-working for thee. |
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19 Nov 24 - 08:56 AM (#4211940) Subject: RE: For Farmers Everywhere... From: gillymor Vengeful, homicidal farmer goes on the lam and narrates a travelogue of Ireland- Farmer Michael Hayes by Planxty arranged by Christy Moore. |
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19 Nov 24 - 11:32 AM (#4211948) Subject: RE: For Farmers Everywhere... From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler Folk on 2, 11 January 1983; Krien Bursted did a number that translates as "The farmer has killed the Taxman". Robin |
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19 Nov 24 - 10:31 PM (#4211985) Subject: RE: For Farmers Everywhere... From: GUEST,DrWord Murray McGloughlan’s Farmers Song {surname sp wrong} < Thanks for the meal, here’s a song that is real From a kid from the city to you >> Keep pickin’ Dennis |
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19 Nov 24 - 10:35 PM (#4211986) Subject: RE: For Farmers Everywhere... From: RTim NEVER SEEN A FARMER ON A BIKE Recorded by: Jonathan Crisp on Ampersand Music Farm 101 Farmer Palmer was on the other day 'bout the price of his sugar-beet drill. He reckoned he'd found the little green pound don't pay them big red bills. Although he's got a private yacht, a race horse and three cars , He always say the farm don't pay. That's how them farmers are. CHORUS: But I've never seen a farmer on a bike Never seen a farmer on a bike Wherever I've been, no, I never miss a thing, But never seen a farmer on a bike He do complain about the rain, the green fly and the drought. He say black spot has ruined his crop but I can't work this out. I've seen him get on a jumbo jet; I've seen him on a train; But that'll be the day I see him biking down the lane. CHORUS I worked for farmer till I worked my fingers to the bone, But when I ask for another pound a week, you should have heard him moan. Although his combine cost a lot, I'm sure you will agree, He could dispose of his Volvo and bike around like me. CHORUS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNQ3itmFug8 |
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20 Nov 24 - 03:42 AM (#4211996) Subject: RE: ADD: Songs For Farmers Everywhere... From: Acorn4 https://davetaylor1.bandcamp.com/track/those-who-grows-the-corn In their tall Saxon Shoes they've straddled the times Nameless their passing like clouds in the skies, Silhouetted on the skyline in a hot sunset dust, Backs bent to the sickle through centuries past Now the combines work late to gather in the grain It's headlights by moonlight before tomorrow's rain. So let's not throw scorn on the man who grows the corn As he grasps the cold iron in the chill of the dawn The biggest investment if you reap what you sow, Is planting a seed and watching it grow While the seasons still turn, that cock will still crow They'll be out with the dew in the morning. In glass city anthills intent on the race Eyes down to the pavement, they're lost in their maze, What fruits do they yield, what have they sown, Just a cold paper balance sheet their harvest home They're just like the birds that follow the plough As it pencils straight furrows through the then and now. So let's not throw scorn on those who grow the corn First the ox, then the shire now the tractor it speeds, And strong arms of the welder provide all that you need, While between those tall buildings a glimpse of the sky As they fight for their space with an eye for an eye Stood out on the very spot where they loaded the cart For those unsung legions who fought Bonaparte So let's not throw scorn on the man who grows the corn Turn around turn around time and again To the beat of the sun , to the rhythm of the rain, Turn around, turn around the seasons amen God speed the plough still as you did then Now those wet lands in November can be a cold heartless place But like their fathers before them they know of no other ways Than this factory in the fields 50 acres to drill Around the church steeple , and down to the mill As you roll through the seasons with a keen weather eye, And the itch of the barley the price that you pay So let's not throw scorn on the man who grows the corn |
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20 Nov 24 - 05:02 AM (#4211997) Subject: RE: ADD: Songs For Farmers Everywhere... From: Thompson It's necessary to make the same division of "farmers" that was made by the people who would plan and bring into action the Easter Rising in Ireland. These people divided farmers into "ranchers" - those with hundreds of acres and thousands of cattle, the big pastoralists and giant horticulturists - and "small farmers" - people with an ordinary farm worked by the family with help shared with neighbours and sometimes hired-in work at harvest or planting time. Newspaper and advertising people up to the 1990s used to divide readers and consumers of ads into groups comprising A, B, C, D, F1 and F2 - the very rich of A, the professionals of B, the middling Cs, poor Ds - and F1 being the wealthy landholders while F2 were the poor farmers struggling to make a living and put their family through school. We'd be as well to realise that there's a similar division today; the MPs and TDs and Congress members swaggering into their parliaments in waxed Barbour coats and whipcords and gilets are one group, the people on their old tractors with red-chapped hands and faces drawn with exhaustion are another quite different group. So looking at the effect of "taxes on farmers" - pshaw. This is just an attempt to divide society. Tax the rich. They're the ones with the money. As for farm songs, a lot of songs are about farming people and the necessities of life, like the many songs about matchmaking, the economic necessity of life up to recently (and maybe even still). |
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20 Nov 24 - 11:21 AM (#4212014) Subject: RE: ADD: Songs For Farmers Everywhere... From: Jim Dixon I like The Field Behind the Plow by Stan Rogers. [Spotify] [YouTube] |
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20 Nov 24 - 11:34 AM (#4212015) Subject: RE: ADD: Songs For Farmers Everywhere... From: Jim Dixon Here's another good one: Pickin' Time by Johnny Cash. [Spotify] [YouTube] |
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20 Nov 24 - 11:58 AM (#4212019) Subject: RE: ADD: Songs For Farmers Everywhere... From: Jim Dixon Here’s a list compiled by somebody else: The Best Country Songs About Farming from holler.country [Playlist on Spotify] (You won’t necessarily find these at Mudcat. I only recognize a few.) 1. Country Trash – Johnny Cash 2. She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy – Kenny Chesney 3. International Harvester – Craig Morgan 4. Down on the Farm – Tim McGraw 5. Factories, Farms and Amphetamines – Myron Elkins 6. The Rooster and the Hen – Emily Nenni 7. Dooley's Farm – Molly Tuttle featuring Billy Strings 8. Hands of Time – Margo Price 9. John Deere Tractor – The Judds 10. She Cranks My Tractor – Dustin Lynch 11. Friends with Tractors – Rodney Atkins 12. Where Corn Don't Grow – Waylon Jennings 13. The Tractor – Mel McDaniel 14. Tractor – Granger Smith 15. One Tractor Mind – Ashley Ryan 16. Stuck Behind a Tractor – Tommy Atkins 17. American Muscle – Canaan Smith 18. Round Here – Florida Georgia Line 19. Cowpoke – Colter Wall 20. A Man on a Tractor – Rodney Atkins 21. The Last of a Dying Breed – Neal McCoy 22. Thank God I'm a Country Boy – John Denver 23. Tractor – Ramblin' Jack Elliot 24. Farm – Colt Fod and Justin Moore 25. Hard Way to Make an Easy Living – Toby Keith 26. John Deere Green – Joe Diffie 27. In a Field Somewhere – Hailey Whitters 28. Dirt on My Boots – Jon Pardi 29. God's Country – Blake Shelton 30. Farmer's Almanac – Johnny Cash 31. Amarillo Sky – Jason Aldean 32. Where the Green Grass Grows – Tim McGraw 33. American Farmer – The Charlie Daniels Band 34. Farmer's Daughter – Rodney Atkins 35. Here's to the Farmer – Luke Bryan 36. The Harvest – Tyler Childers 37. Farmer – Lee Brice 38. John Deere Tractor – Billy Strings 39. The Cattle Call – Eddy Arnold 40. Let the Rain Come Down – Steel Woods 41. Rain on the Scarecrow – John Mellencamp 42. Daddy Won't Sell the Farm – Montgomery Gentry 43. High Cotton – Alabama 44. The Boy Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn – Alison Krauss & Union Station 45. Corn – Blake Shelton 46. Scarecrow in the Garden – Chris Stapleton 47. Corn Star – Craig Morgan 48. Daddy's Farm – Shooter Jennings 49. Heartland – George Strait |
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20 Nov 24 - 12:11 PM (#4212020) Subject: RE: ADD: Songs For Farmers Everywhere... From: Jim Dixon Another list: The 12 Best Country Songs About Farming from CountryLiving.com: The original article (see link) contains links to videos, quotes from lyrics, and some discussion of each song:
1. Thank God I'm a Country Boy – John Denver, 1974 |
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20 Nov 24 - 12:56 PM (#4212024) Subject: RE: ADD: Songs For Farmers Everywhere... From: Jim Dixon Songs That’ll Make You Feel like a Farmer, from Sonoma County Winegrowers [Playlist at Spotify] 1. A Country Boy Can Survive – Hank Williams, Jr. 2. A Man on a Tractor – Rodney Atkins 3. Christmas Tree Farm – Taylor Swift 4. Country Money – Miranda Lambert 5. Dirt on My Boots – Jon Pardi 6. Down on the Farm – Tim McGraw 7. Farmer's Almanac – Johnny Cash 8. Farmer's Blues – Marty Stuart and Merle Haggard 9. Hands of Time – Margo Price 10. Harvest Time – Luke Bryan 11. International Harvester – Craig Morgan 12. Jack of All Trades – Bruce Springsteen 13. John Deere Tractor – The Judds 14. Rain on the Scarecrow – John Mellencamp 15. She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy – Kenny Chesney |
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20 Nov 24 - 02:30 PM (#4212029) Subject: RE: ADD: Songs For Farmers Everywhere... From: Jim Dixon 47 Songs About Farmers and Tractors, from HubPages.com 1. She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy – Kenny Chesney, 1999. 2. John Deere Green – Joe Diffie, 1993. 3. Daddy Won't Sell the Farm – Montgomery Gentry, 1998. 4. Where the Green Grass Grows – Tim McGraw, 1998. 5. Farmer's Daughter – Rodney Atkins, 2010. 6. Here's to the Farmer – Luke Bryan, 2016. 7. Where Corn Don't Grow – Travis Tritt, 1996. 8. Pretty Pink Tractor – Tim Hawkins, 2011. 9. Thank God I'm a Country Boy – John Denver, 1974. 10. Cafe on the Corner – Sawyer Brown, 1992. 11. High Cotton – Alabama, 1989. 12. Daddy's Farm – Shooter Jennings, 2005. 13. Down on the Farm – Guns N' Roses, 1993. 14. Corn Star – Craig Morgan, 2012. 15. Welcome to the Farm – Luke Bryan, 2009. 16. Farm to Fame – Joey + Rory, 2010. 17. Tractor – Granger Smith, 2016. 18. I Want My Tractor Back – Lianna Rose, 2008. 19. International Harvester – Craig Morgan, 2006. 20. All Tractors Ain't Green – Jimmie Allen, 2018. 21. Thank a Farmer – James Wesley, 2017. 22. Who's Your Farmer – Chris Janson, 2017. 23. Big Green Tractor – Jason Aldean, 2009. 24. She Cranks My Tractor – Dustin Lynch, 2012. 25. John Doe on a John Deere – Lonestar, 1997. 26. Rain on the Scarecrow – John Mellencamp, 1985. 27. Rain Is a Good Thing – Luke Bryan, 2009. 28. Farm Life – Colt Ford (featuring Justin Moore), 2014. 29. Farmer's Blues – Marty Stuart, 2003. 30. A Man on a Tractor – Rodney Atkins, 2006. 31. I'll Grow My Own – Chris Cagle, 2012. 32. Kick the Dust Up – Luke Bryan, 2015. 33. Farmer's Almanac – Johnny Cash, 1989. 34. Amarillo Sky – Jason Aldean, 2005. 35. Farm Girl – Jason Meadows, 2007. 36. Song of the South – Alabama, 1989. 37. The Last of a Dying Breed – Neal McCoy, 2005. 38. Things I Miss the Most – Van Zant, 2005. 39. It Doesn't Get Any Countrier Than This – Tim McGraw, 1994. 40. John Deere Tractor – The Judds, 1984. 41. Friends with Tractors – Rodney Atkins, 2009. 42. I Wanna Be a Hillbilly – Billy Currington, 2005. 43. Down on the Farm – Tim McGraw, 1994. 44. Alabama Clay – Garth Brooks, 1989. 45. Cadillac Ranch – Chris LeDoux, 1992. 46. Dirt Road Dollars – The Lacs & Nate Kenyon, 2017. 47. Scarecrow in the Garden – Chris Stapleton, 2017 |
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20 Nov 24 - 04:11 PM (#4212034) Subject: RE: ADD: Songs For Farmers Everywhere... From: RTim I Ain't Good Work on Maggie's Farm No More...Bob Dylan... I heard it this morning on local radio... Tim Radford |
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20 Nov 24 - 05:33 PM (#4212037) Subject: RE: ADD: Songs For Farmers Everywhere... From: Tattie Bogle The Farm Auction by Enoch Kent, and also sung by Iain Mackintosh. A sad reflection on what it comes to for some. When we first lived in our present house, there was a small farm just down the road, where we used to buy lovely fresh veg, eggs and bedding plants. The owners eventually retired and the farm was sold, with all equipment going for on-site auction: a sad day and sight indeed. In its place? Several huge modern houses, no farm any more! |
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20 Nov 24 - 05:40 PM (#4212039) Subject: RE: ADD: Songs For Farmers Everywhere... From: GUEST,.gargoyle Combine Harvester By: The Wurzels (Somerset co, UK) 1971 Tune: "Brand New Key" The Combine Harvester (Brand New Key) Song by The Wurzels I drove my tractor through your haystack last night (ooh aah ooh aah) I threw me pitchfork at your dog to keep quiet (ooh aah ooh aah) Now something's telling me That you'm avoiding me Come on now darling you've got something I need Cuz I got a brand new combine harvester An' I'll give you the key Come on now let's get together In perfect harmony I got twenty acres An' you got fortythree Now I got a brand new combine harvester An' I'll give you the key She made I laugh ha ha I'll stick by you, I'll give you all that you need We'll 'ave twins and triplets I'm a man built for speed And you know I'll love you darlin' So give me your hand But what I want the most Is all they acres of land Cuz I got a brand new combine harvester An' I'll give you the key Come on now let's get together In perfect harmony I got twenty acres An' you got forty-three Now I got a brand new combine harvester An' I'll give you the key Ooaah she's a lovely bit of stuff an' all For seven long years I've been alone in this place Eat, sleep, in the kitchen, it's a proper disgrace Now if I cleaned it up would you change your mind I'll give up drinking scrumpy and that lager and lime Cuz I got a brand new combine harvester An' I'll give you the key Come on now let's get together In perfect harmony I got twenty acres An' you got forty-three Now I got a brand new combine harvester An' I'll give you the key Who loves ya baby ha Weren't we a grand couple at that last wurzel dance I wore brand new gaters and me cordouroy pants In your new Sunday dress with your perfume smelling grand We had our photos took and us holding hands Now I got a brand new combine harvester An' I'll give you the key Now that we'me both past our fifties I think that you and me Should stop this galavanting and will you marry me Coz I got a brand new combine harvester An' I'll give you the key Aahh yu're a fine looking woman and I can't wait to get me 'ands on your land |