meeting of the school board. so god made a farm. god said i need somebody willing to stay up all night with a newborn colt and watch it die and dry his eyes and say may be next year. i need somebody that shield a horse and ahaystacks out of shoe scraps and finish a 40-hour week by tuesday noon and put in another 72 hours so god made a farmer. god said i need somebody strong enough to clear trees, gentle enough to wean pigs and stop more for an hour so god made a farmer. it had to be somebody who plowed deep and straight. somebody to weed, feed and plow and planted and strain the milk, somebody would bale a family with the soft bonds of sharing.
so god made a farm. god said i need somebody willing to stay up all night with a newborn colt and watch it die and dry his eyes and say may be next year. i need somebody that shield a horse and ahaystacks out of shoe scraps and finish a 40-hour week by tuesday noon and put in another 72 hours so god made a farmer. god said i need somebody strong enough to clear trees, gentle enough to wean pigs and stop more for an hour so god made a farmer. it had to be somebody who plowed deep and straight. somebody to weed, feed and plow and planted and strain the milk, somebody would bale a family with the soft bonds of sharing.