1251
Now, Ma.

1252
- Goodbye.
- Goodbye.

1253
- Thanks a lot. Goodbye.
- Goodbye.

1254
Thanks, Mr Conway.

1255
- Bye.
- You be careful.

1256
20 days work. Oh, boy!

1257
I'll be glad to get my hands on some cotton.
That's the kind of picking I understand.

1258
Maybe. Maybe 20 days' work
and maybe no days' work.

1259
- We ain't got it till we get it.
- What's the matter, Ma? Getting scared?

1260
Scared. Huh!

1261
I ain't never gonna be scared no more.

1262
I was though. For a while it looked
as though we was beat. Good and beat.

1263
Looked like we didn't have nobody
in the worid but enemies.

1264
Like nobody was friendly no more.

1265
Made me feel kind of bad and scared too.

1266
Like we was lost and nobody cared.

1267
You're the one that keeps us going, Ma.

1268
I ain't no good no more and I know it.

1269
Seems like I spend all my time these days
thinking how it used to be.

1270
Thinking of home.

1271
I ain't never gonna see it no more.

1272
Well, Pa, a woman can change
better than a man.

1273
A man lives sort of, well, in jerks¹.

1274
Baby's born or somebody dies,
and that's ajerk.

1275
He gets a farm or loses it, and that's ajerk.

1276
With a woman it's all in one flow
like a stream.

1277
Little eddies² and waterfalls,
but the river, it goes right on.

1278
A woman looks at it that way.

1279
- Well, maybe, but we're sure taking a beating.
- I know.

1280
That's what makes us tough.

1281
Rich fellas come up, and they die,
and their kids ain't no good and they die out.

1282
But we keep coming.
We're the people that live.

1283
They can't wipe us out. They can't lick³ us.

1284
We'll go on forever, Pa, cos we're the people.

1285
Visiontext Subtitles: Simon Campbell