From the recording We Could Use A Little Rain
Lyrics
Home Grown Tomatoes
(Guy Clark)
There ain’t nothin’ in the world that I like better
Than bacon ‘n lettuce ‘n homegrown tomatoes
Up in the morning out in the garden
Get you a ripe one don’t get a hard one
Plant ‘em in the spring eat ‘em in the summer
All winter without ‘em’s a culinary bummer
I forget all about the sweatin’ and diggin’
Every time I go out and pick me a big one
CH Homegrown tomatoes homegrown tomatoes
What would life be without homegrown tomatoes
The only two things that money can’t buy
That’s true love and homegrown tomatoes
You can go out to eat now and that’s for sure
But there ain’t nothin’ a homegrown tomato won’t cure
Put ‘em in a salad put ‘em in a stew
You can make your very own tomato juice
Eat ‘em with eggs eat ‘em with gravy
Eat ‘em with beans pinto and navy
Put ‘em on the side you can put ‘em in the middle
Put a homegrown tomato on a hotcake griddle
CH
Now if I was to change this life I lead
I’d be Johnny tomato seed
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Cause I know what this country needs
It’s homegrown tomatoes in every yard you see
When I die don’t bury me
In a box in a cemetery
Out in the garden would be much better
I could be pushin’ up homegrown tomatoes
CH
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