Monday, February 4, 2013

Paul Harvey's "So God Made A Farmer" commercial: Best of Super Bowl 2013

Chrysler Group LLC called its Super Bowl XLVII commercial "Farmer." According to The Wall Street Journal, the truck maker "commissioned 10 photographers including William Albert Allard of National Geographic and documentary photographer Kurt Markus to create the images that form the commercial’s backdrop." The Wall Street Journal reported that Chrysler worked with the Richards Group of Dallas, Texas, to create the Super Bowl commercial.

There will be much debate on the commercial, but it was easily one of the best ads for the 2013 Super Bowl. If not the best.

Here's the transcript for the 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 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.

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 an ash tree, shoe a horse with hunk of car tire, who can make a harness out hay wire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. Who, during 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 the 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."

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.

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