I saw Pink Martini in concert once when they played this song. Thomas Lauderdale introduced it by saying he'd seen a ketchup advertisement from 1964 that depicted a tomato on a vine, with the slogan, "Hang on, little tomato!" The idea being that they only harvested the most ripe and flavorful tomatoes to smash for their ketchup. So, he said, it's a song about hope... and death. Straight from the horse's mouth, as it were.
I saw Pink Martini in concert once when they played this song. Thomas Lauderdale introduced it by saying he'd seen a ketchup advertisement from 1964 that depicted a tomato on a vine, with the slogan, "Hang on, little tomato!" The idea being that they only harvested the most ripe and flavorful tomatoes to smash for their ketchup. So, he said, it's a song about hope... and death. Straight from the horse's mouth, as it were.