This Says It All!

Look at Cassie's satisfaction and appreciation from picking this fresh tomato!

This brings to mind a true love song, the tender ballad below.

Homegrown Tomatoes by Guy Clark

Chorus:

Homegrown tomatoes, homegrown tomatoes

What'd life be without homegrown tomatoes

Only two things that money can't buy

That's true love and homegrown tomatoes

1. Well, there ain't nothin' in the world that I like better

Than bacon, lettuce and home grown tomatoes

Up in the morning and out in the garden

Pick you a ripe one. Hey, don't get a hard 'un.

Plant 'em in the spring, eat 'em ion the summer.

All winter without 'em's a culinary bummer.

I forget all about the sweatin' and the diggin'

Every time I go out and pick me a big'un.

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2. You can go out and eat 'em, that's for sure,

There's nothin' a home grown tomato won't cure.

Put 'em in a salad, put 'em in a stew.

You can make your own tomato juice.

You can eat 'em with eggs, you can eat 'em with gravy.

Eat with 'em with bean, pinto or navy.

Put 'em on the side, put 'em in the middle.

Put a homegrown tomato on a hot cake griddle.

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3. If I could change this life I lead,

I'd be Johnny Tomato Seed.

'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,

Where I could be pushin' up those homegrown tomatoes.

CHORUS

Listen to it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nitgmAInI18