Paul Harvey and Ram Trucks: So God Made a Farmer Videographic
Videos can be infographics. Listen in to this great TV ad for Ram Trucks narrated by Paul Harvey and aired first at the 2013 Super Bowl.
Here is the text for this ad:
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 cows, work all day in the fields, 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.
God said, “I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say, ‘Maybe next year.’ I need somebody who can shape an ax 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 scraps. Who planting time and harvest season will finish his 40-hour week by Tuesday noon and then, paining from tractor back, put in another 72 hours.” So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bales, yet gentle enough to yean lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-comb pullets. Who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the leg of a meadowlark.” So God made a farmer.
It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed, and brake, and disk, and plow, and plant, and tie the fleece, and strain the milk. Somebody who’d 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 that he wants to spend his life doing what Dad does. So God made a farmer.
Charity Showcase
Heifer International supplies cows and milk to needy families around the world. Their work has expanded to providing other animals as well: goats, geese and guinea pigs to bees, silkworms and water buffalo. Their goal is to end world hunger and poverty. Web: http://www.heifer.org/give.
Curator: John Kremer
