OT: Songs about farm life, agriculture and animals from a barn

[UHF]

Traffic. John Barleycorn. Reunion Tour 1994.

 

[UHF]

Traffic. John Barleycorn. 1972. (Yes, repeat. 22 years earlier for comparison.)

 

[LesMis89]

 

[meyers7]

An American Idol runner up. She actually wrote this prior.

Farmer's Daughter - Crystal Bowersox

 

[meyers7]

Sheeps and goats.

Sheep Go To Heaven - Cake

 

[OviedoFLHusky]

 

[meyers7]

Scarecrow - Counting Crows

 

[64Zcode]

 

[64Zcode]

And another bit of humor to balance the Cal Smith. These lads actually have quite a few farm-related parody songs... who knew?

 

[Scud49]

"When my baby cooks her eggplant" - love this great Michael Franks tune:

 

[RoadMaster]

 

[Bigboote]

Traffic. John Barleycorn. 1972. (Yes, repeat. 22 years earlier for comparison.)

John Barleycorn Must Die was one of the first albums I ever owned. Steve did an incredible job reimagining a song that goes back several hundred years. I was just a kid and didn't understand the symbolism. It wasn't until a few years later, hearing Steeleye Span's version, that I realized he was actually the personification of adult beverages. I love the contrast in the last verses between the two. Traffic:

The huntsman he can't hunt the fox, nor so loudly to blow his horn
And the tinker he can't mend kettle nor pot
Without a little barleycorn

Steeleye:

They've worked their will on poor John Barleycorn, but he's lived to tell the tale
For they pour him out of an old brown jug and they call him home-brewed ale

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[Zorro]

 

[SVCBeercats]

 

[Zorro]

Washboard Sam; "Diggin myh Poatoes"

 

[Zorro]

 

[AmeriConn]

Down on The Farm

 

[hardcorehusky]

The Peterson Brothers have many funny farm parody videos. I have met one of them and they do it to publicize farming and their farm.

 

[cullaville]

Going down to Yasgur's Farm...............

 

[cullaville]

 

[npignatjr]

 

[npignatjr]

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

Like most Gillian Welch songs, this is beautiful and haunting. She and David Rawlings put on a heck of a good show, too. Just the two of them, picking and singing, no other accompaniment, no percussion, doesn't need anything else.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Nanci again.

 

[Littlemin]

May be more than a wee bit of a stretch relating to the theme but a great tune from a great live album….Lonnie Donegan, Van, and Chris Barber. My thanks to Hoops66 for bringing Lonnie Donegan up!

 

[Zorro]