From the Old Crow Medicine Show- "We Dong Grow Tobacco" adapted and shared, by Q
Old Crow Medicine Show members have actually farmed tobacco as a way to give their music authenticity. "To write a song like that you have to spend a little time in those fields," Ketch Secor said. "We did, and we were informed by that experience. The whole band worked one summer, $5 an hour, bringing in some of the last tobacco on the backside of Beech Mountain. Sure, we were growing something poisonous, but we got some good songs out of it, just as Dock Boggs and Merle Travis got some good songs out of the coal mines." (Song fact)
Wife's uncle and aunt had tobacco plot, she was paid to pick tobacco worms from the plants. Penny a worm.
They also raised Hemp, for the US, used for rope. All seeds were to be accounted for.