To celebrate growing tomatoes, here’s our favourite tomato song written and performed by Guy Clark. To quote: “Only two things that money can’t buy and that’s true love and homegrown tomatoes.” 

Little Green Thumbs students might like listening to the song, or singing it karaoke-style. Teach them to sing a couple of verses for Parent’s night when they’re showing off their LGT indoor garden or for that spring concert you’re planning.

To celebrate growing tomatoes, here’s our favourite tomato song written and performed by Guy Clark.

“Homegrown Tomatoes” Music and lyrics by Guy Clark

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

 Than bacon & lettuce & homegrown 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 & pick me a big one

Homegrown tomatoes homegrown tomatoes

 What’d life be without homegrown tomatoes

 Only two things that money can’t buy

 That’s true love & homegrown tomatoes

You can go out to eat & 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 egss, eat ’em with gravy

 Eat ’em with beans, pinto or navy

 Put ’em on the site put ’em in the middle

 Put a homegrown tomato on a hotcake griddle

If I’s to change this life 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 cemetary

 Out in the garden would be much better

 I could be pushin’ up homegrown tomatoes