It’s based on an advertisement for Hunt’s ketchup from an October 16th 1964 issue of Life magazine. There’s this little green tomato clinging to the vine and the narrator says “Hang on little tomato. Stay on the vine until you’re fat and juicy. Then we’ll pluck you and boil you and secret bump in spices, turn you into ketchup and if you’re lucky some smart hamburger may then team up with you”. So this is a song of hope.
The sun has left and forgotten me
Its dark, I cannot see
Why does this rain pour down
I’m gonna drown
In a sea
Of deep confusion
Somebody told me, I don’t know who
Whenever you are sad and blue
And you’re feeling all alone and left behind
Just look inside you and you’ll find
You gotta hold on, hold on through the night
Hang on, things will be all right
Even when it’s dark
And not a bit of sparkling
Sing-song sunshine from above
Spreading rays of sunny love
Just hang on, hang on to the vine
Stay on, soon you’ll be divine
If you start to cry, look up to the sky
Something’s coming up ahead
To turn your tears to dew instead
And so I hold on to this advice
When change is hard and not so nice
You listen to your heart the whole night through
Your sunny someday will come one day soon to you
