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 with out `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
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Denomination Blues
original lyrics by Washington Phillips 1920 ; ALTERNATE lyrics by Buddy Greene & Pat Flynn.
(Jeu de mots Presbyterian / Frisbeeterian au sixième couplet)
Well now I wanna tell you people it’s a natural fact
Every man don’t understand the bible alike
And that’s all, well I tell you that’s all
But you better have Jesus
Well, I tell you that’s all
Well, denominations have no right to fight
You know they ought go on and treat each other right
And that’s all, oh I tell you that’s all
But you better have Jesus
Well, I tell you that’s all
Well now it’s hard to find a Presbyterian on his knees
He’s too busy dottin’ i’s and crossing all his t’s
And that’s all, I tell you that’s all
But you better have Jesus
Well, I tell you that’s all
Now the Nazarenes say drinkin’ is a crime,
But I know a Nazarene who turned water into wine
And that’s all, I tell you that’s all
But you better have Jesus
I tell you that’s all
Now the Catholics say the Pope is never wrong
But Brother Martin Luther sang a different song
And that’s all, I tell you that’s all
But you better have Jesus
I tell you that’s all
Now the Frisbeeterian is walkin’ round with a frown
Cause his souls on the roof and he can’t get it down
And that’s all, I tell you that’s all
But you better have Jesus
I tell you that’s all
Now the Unitarian – you know he’s cuttin’ it close
You could say that he believes in one God at the most
And that’s all, I tell you that’s all
But you better have Jesus
I tell you that’s all
Well, you can to your college, you can go to your school
But if you aint got Jesus, you’s an educated fool
And that’s all, I tell you that’s all
But you better have Jesus
I tell you that’s all
You know you better have Jesus
Well, I tell you that’s all
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"la chrétienté a aboli le christianisme" (Sören Kierkegaard).
