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Songs about Farming

Green acres is the life for me! Agriculture is literally the oldest enabler of human civilization - before humans had a way to make food happen in one place consistently, they had to travel around to where the food was. It wasn't until we started to farm that the concept of real estate - this is my land because I tend it - was born, and next came cities, nations, and bureaucracy. So it's natural that farming would be a topic for many songs.

Here you'll find the music down on the farm to range from sappy psalms about the joys of digging your fingers into the warm, rich, brown soil to birth life from the loam, to rather bored attitudes that sound like they'd rather be back in the city than life a life smelling pig slop every morning. Count on farming being a song topic until we perfect growing genetically modified organisms in Petri dishes using robot labor.

  • Big Green Tractor
    Big Green Tractor Jason Aldean

    "I can take you for a ride on my big green tractor
    we can go slow or make it go faster
    down through the woods and out to the pasture
    long as I'm with you it really don't matter "

  • Cotton Fields
    Cotton Fields Lead Belly

    "It may sound a little funny
    But you didn't make very much money
    In them old cotton fields back home
    It may sound a little funny "

  • Fields of Gold
    Fields of Gold Sting

    "So she took her love
    For to gaze awhile
    Upon the fields of barley
    In his arms she fell as her hair came down
    Among the fields of gold"

  • Forever Fields (Sowing Season)
    Forever Fields (Sowing Season) 10 Years

    "There's no life in these seeds
    its the growth of disease
    it's sowing season
    in these forever fields"

  • Four Green Fields
    Four Green Fields Clancy Brothers
  • International Harvester
    International Harvester Craig Morgan

    "I'm the son of a third generation farmer
    I've been married 10 years to the farmer's daughter
    I'm a God fearing hardworking combine driver
    Hogging up the road on my p-p-p-p-plower
    Chug-a-lug-a-lugin 5 miles an hour
    On my International Harvester"

  • John Deere Tractor
    John Deere Tractor Judds, The

    "I'm like a John Deere Tractor
    In a half acre field
    Tryin' to plow a furrow
    Where the soil is made of steel"

  • Old Rivers
    Old Rivers Walter Brennan

    "He had one old mule he called Midnight
    And I'd trailed along after them.
    He used to plow them rows straight and deep
    And I'd come along near behind
    A-bustin' up clods with my own bare feet"

  • She Cranks My Tractor
    She Cranks My Tractor Dustin Lynch

    "She's the first one up the hayloft ladder
    A girl like that's what a country boy's after
    She cranks, she cranks, she cranks my tractor"

  • She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy
    She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy Kenny Chesney

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