The Farm

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Comment by Sharecropper (Joel) on August 10, 2012 at 9:14pm

 OOps !!!!  I clicked "like" on my own song .   I meant to see who liked it .   Thanks , all !!!!

Comment by Sharecropper (Joel) on August 10, 2012 at 9:07pm

 Thanks, "Linda" !!!!!!!!!!          Thanks , Mike Bingham ! !

Comment by Uncle John on August 10, 2012 at 6:55am

Ops!!!

Forgot to sign, LINDA

Comment by Uncle John on August 10, 2012 at 6:53am

Songs sung from the heart are exceptional!!!!!!

Very Well Done!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by Mike Bingham on August 9, 2012 at 11:25pm

It doesn't get any more real than this. Great work!

Comment by Sharecropper (Joel) on August 9, 2012 at 3:19pm

  Thanks , Silent Jim , good information there !         Thanks , Nancy kat , glad it made you purr !!  ha!ha!

Comment by Nancy kat on August 9, 2012 at 12:45pm

Where would we be without the farmers?! ~~Respect Mother Earth~~Exceptional piece Joel-Meowwwww^^

Comment by Sharecropper (Joel) on August 9, 2012 at 10:10am

 Thanks , Whiteowl !!    Yes , very brown for Iowa .  Worse drought here for around 50 years .

Comment by Sharecropper (Joel) on August 9, 2012 at 10:06am

 Thanks for the comment , Diglydog .  Thanks for sharing your stories , Oily and Vinylhed .  I just worked on the farm until I was 18 . Then I went off to college in Fort Dodge , Iowa before moving to Colorado .  There wasn't any work for me on the farm and no part of it is mine . It has been leased out for about the last 20 years , except for 10 acres where the house is ( the part I view as "the farm") .    Vinylhed , sad to hear that in the UK you can relate to this story .    Oily , great  Thomas Jefferson reference !!  Most people know nothing about the early debate of a country based on individuals and  agriculture or a country based on industry .

Comment by Vinylhed on August 9, 2012 at 8:57am

Emotive and authentic. I am inspired by people like you, and have the utmost respect for the farming communities. I grew up in rural Yorkshire, where I did my fair share of potato picking when I was a kid, but many of my farming friends are finding it harder and harder to make ends meet. The large supermarkets have been colluding to fix prices for the produce they buy from farmers, but on the up side there has recently been a popular campaign in the UK to pressure supermarkets to pay a fair price for milk. 

Anyway, I wish you all the best, and hope you'll find time to post some more songs of this quality in the future. 

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