The
Super Bowl was exciting as expected, power loss and all. The advertisements
were good too—sexy, fun, quirky. But the best ad was by Dodge for their Ram
truck. There wasn’t much said about the truck, but there was something said
about the kind of people who might buy the truck; the kind of people most of us
really want to be—good, honest, God-fearing, hardworking and loving. The ad was
a smash hit. The words were written a long time ago by radio personality Paul
Harvey from Chicago. The full script by Paul Harvey is below in quotes,
followed by the commercial. Let’s strive to be the kind of people the farmer in
the story represents.
“And
on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said I need a
caretaker- So God made a Farmer. God said I need somebody willing to get up
before dawn, milk the cows, work all day in the field, milk cows again, eat
supper then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board
– So God made a Farmer.
I
need somebody with arms strong enough to wrestle a calf and yet gentle enough
to deliver his own grandchild; somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous
machinery, come home hungry, have to await lunch until his wife's done feeding
visiting ladies, then tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon, and
mean it - So God made a Farmer.
God
said I need somebody willing to sit up all night with and newborn colt, and
watch it die, then dry his eyes and say maybe next year. I need somebody who
can shape an axe handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of
car tire, who can make a harness out of hay wire, feed sacks and shoe straps,
who at planting time and harvest season will finish his forty hour week by
Tuesday noon and then, paining from tractor back, will put in another 72 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, and yet stop in midfield and race to help when he sees first
smoke from a neighbor's place - So God made a Farmer.
God
said I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bales, yet gentle
enough to wean lambs and pigs and tend to pink combed pullets; who will stop
his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadowlark.
It
had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners; somebody
to seed, weed, feed, breed, and rake and disk and plow and plant and tie the
fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and a hard week’s work
with a five-mile drive to church. Somebody
who would bale a family together with the soft, strong bonds of sharing; who
would laugh and then sigh, and then reply with smiling eyes when his son says
he want to spend his life doing what dad does – So God made a Farmer.”
The
link to the commercial is below.
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