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Thread #174646   Message #4235033
Posted By: cnd
27-Jan-26 - 07:23 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Gardener's Wife (?) (Bawdy)
Subject: Lyr Add: Vegetable Garden Blues (Sowell)
Also not quite right, but there's the entertaining song off the Putnam County Pickers' 1978 album, It's About Time (Rose Records Rose-14-U)

Vegetable Garden Blues
(Ron Sowell - New Orchard Music Co. - ASCAP)

You can caress a carrot, grab a green bean
Leaf through the lettuce, do anything you please
You can ravish a radish, bite on a beat
Manhandle a melon if you really think you're neat
Munch on a mushroom if you're really feelin' bad
But don't touch my tomato, 'cause that really makes me mad

I love my tomato, ripe round and red
Offer me anything, I'll take my tomato instead

I don't care for spinach -- I just can't stand the taste
To eat a rutabaga seems like such a waste
Don't care for potatoes, never did like eating roots
That goes for apples, peaches, strawberries, cherries, and all of those silly fruits.
Don't care to pick a berry, don't care to peel a grape
Just let me eat a tomato, I won't even... hesitate

I love my tomato, even while it's still on the vine
Offer me anything, I'll take my tomato every time

You may be a cucumber and really think you're cool
A real top banana, talkin' 'bout nobody's fool
You may be a jalapeƱo pepper and think you're red hot
The head cabbage, a real big shot
Hey king corn, keep your ears peeled and to the ground
And don't go messin' with my tomato when I'm not around

'Cause I love my tomato, boiled, stewed or fried
Offer me anything, I'll take my tomato every time