Downstairs - Hey Rosetta!

We begin downstairs and we end up up here
Well see you grew everything that you needed to live on
That's what it amounted to
Mostly the main crop was potatoes
But then you grew carrots
You know
Cabbages
Lettuce
Tomatoes and we had cherry trees
Big cherries
You know
Almost as big as the ones you can buy in the store now
We still have some here as matter of fact
If you're around in the summer
Late July
Drop in
Yeah
You had to grow your vegetables
I mean we had to
You couldn't go out to the stores and buy vegetables in those days
You had to grow it to live
Yep
We had big gardens and you had to work hard b'y
'Tis a lot o hard work
Everybody worked when you're old enough to work you had to work
That's that's it
Everyone had to help you know
But you managed to get enough
Usually
We did anyway
You kept from you grew enough to have seeds for the next year
And people traded seeds back and forth
Some had more than others
They just shared with one another
Everyone had to grow vegetables if they wanted to live
That's what it amounted to
Lots of poor people too
Who needed help you know
People who had a little more helped
Everyone helped everyone else
That's the way we lived
If you needed something you had no trouble to go next door
If they had it
You got it
Same way in reverse