Homegrown Tomatoes Lyrics - Guy Clark

Ain't nothin' in the world that I like better 

Than bacon & lettuce & home grown tomatoes 

Up in the mornin' 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' & diggin' 

Everytime I go out and pick me a big one 

Homegrown tomatoes home grown tomatoes 

Wha'd life be without homegrown tomatoes 

Only two things money can't buy 

That's true love and homegrown tomatoes 

I've been out to eat and that's for sure 

But it's 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 or navy 

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

Put a home grown tomato on a hotcake griddle 

If I's to change this life that I lead 

I'd be Johnny tomato seed 

Cause I know what this country needs 

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