Guy Clark
Home Grown Tomatoes
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Homegrown tomatoes, homegrown tomatoes,
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What'd life be without homegrown tomatoes,
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There's only two things that money can't buy:
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True love and homegrown tomatoes.
[Verse 1]
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There's nothin in the world that I like better
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Than bacon and lettuce and homegrown tomatoes
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Up in the morning out in the garden
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Pick you a ripe one, don't get a hard 'un
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Plant em in the springtime, eat em in the summer
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All winter without em's a culinary bummer
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I forget all about the sweatin and the diggin
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Every time I go out and pick me a big 'un
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[Verse 2]
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You can go out and eat em, that's for sure
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But there's nothin a home grown tomato won't cure
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Put em in a salad, put em in a stew
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You can make your own, your very own tomato juice
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You can eat em with eggs, you can eat em with gravy
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You can eat em with beans, pinto or navy
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Put em on the side, put em in the middle
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Home grown tomatoes on a hot cake griddle
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[Verse 3]
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If I could change this life I lead
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You could call me Johnny Tomatoseed
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I know what this country needs
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It's home grown tomatoes in every yard you see.
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When I die don't bury me
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In a box in a cold dark cemetery
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Out in the garden would be much better
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Where I could be a pushin' up the home grown tomatoes.
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