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Paul and Linda McCartney wrote “Junior’s Farm” as an homage to Claude “Curly” Putman, Jr., who’s farm they were staying at in Lebanon, Tennessee, along with Wings, in 1974. The band recorded the song at Nashville’s Sound Shop and released it as the A-side to a 7” single backed with “Sally G” in October, and the song went to number three on the U.S. charts.
Paul and Linda’s first introduction to the place they’d call home for six weeks and that they’d come to call Junior’s Farm (at least in song) was after a long day of travel. “It was 7 or 8 o’clock,” Putman recently remembered. “They were pretty wore out. But they came and we had a little cocktail party to welcome them.They had asked for certain things to be in the house. They were vegetarians.” Putman says Paul and Linda stayed in the big house on the hill, while Wings was relegated to the little house down the road. Putman even fixed up his garage for Wings to practice in.
With McCartney’s whimsical lyrics, seems to have little to do with Putman’s actual farm. Characters as diverse (and random) as a poker man, Oliver Hardy, an Eskimo and a sea lion pop up in the song’s verses. In one version of the single’s cover photo, members of Wings crowd around a poker table dressed as “Junior’s Farm” characters. Paul stands next to a seal and sports a hillbilly straw hat, while Geoff Briton plays the Eskimo part.
On the song’s chorus, McCartney gets more specific to his surroundings. “Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, Down to Junior’s Farm where I wanna lay low. Low life, high life, oh let’s go, Take me down to Junior’s Farm.” He and the band were certainly “laying low,” warming up for a major Wings tour. “High life” and “low life” seem to sum up the dual worlds of rock stars - one minute partying in jet planes, the next relaxing in the country. Or “low life” might refer to the darker side of rock stardom. (Putman recalls hearing that one of the band members got a little “rambunctious” in Nashville and wound up in jail.) Finally, the old man at the grocery seems like a character from rural Tennessee.
Regardless of where Paul and Linda drew inspiration from the song, they certainly had fun on Junior’s farm. “They just seemed to enjoy being out in the country. They rode horses. I have a pond and they went swimming in it…Paul was very likable, personable. He just seemed like one of us.”
Curly Putman still lives on his Lebanon farm and recently released a new CD entitled Write ‘Em Sad, Sing ‘Em Lonesome, which is dedicated to his grandson, Sean Putman, who died of cancer. All proceeds from sales of the CD will go to the Sean Putman Memorial Fund at Cumberland University. To order the CD, visit iTunes, CDBaby, or Amazon.
Read the full story on “Rock In The Country” or order a copy of the Jan/Feb 2011 Legends issue here.
The third verse allude to US President Richard Nixon's resignation over the Watergate scandal and the desire to get rid of him Mafia style, by putting his feet in concrete and dropping him in the river Thames, (which is next to the British Houses of Parliament;
At the Houses of Parliament. Ev'rybody's talking 'bout the President. We all chip in for a bag of cement
The fourth verse was more explicit, but far less extreme, it simply mocks movie legend Oliver Hardy's investment in the Del Mar Fairgrounds race track, (which was partly owned by fellow actor Bing Crosby.[9][circular reference] It is uncertain as to why McCartney chose to single out Hardy, especially as there appears to be no record of him having lost on the investment.
Olly Hardy should have had more sense. He bought a gee-gee and he jumped the fence. All for the sake of a couple of pence.