mama showed us Lyrics

Mama showed us

How to grow

Food in her old garden and use a hoe

Mama showed us

How to weed

Garden borders, ready to plant seed

Mama showed us how to cook a meal

Mince and tatties, herrings in oatmeal

We knew what we'd eat most every day

Spaghetti bolognese on saturdays

Mama showed us

How to make

Chicken runs from wire and wooden crates

Mama showed us

How to care

For animals and feed them when she wasn't there!

Mama always showed us we could do

Anything at all we wanted to

She could turn her hand to any task

To learn from her we only had to ask

Mama showed us

To work hard

Education would always get us far

Mama showed us

Thrifty ways

Don't buy if you can't afford to save

Mama showed us how to make and mend

Don't throw out what you can use again

There'll never be enough for human greed

There'll always be enough for what you need

Mama showed us

We ought to care

For these in life who never get their share

Mama showed us

How to find

The good in others that she saw in all mankind

Mama always showed us right from wrong

How to keep the peace and get along

How to help with no thought of return

Lessons she expected us to learn

Mama showed us

That we should

Do what counted for the common good

Mama showed us

To be kind

What you see ain't always what you find

Mama always did what her Papa did

The good they did for others, that was hid

Yeah, she believed, like him, in God above

Everything they did was done for love