Sit up straight all you Southerners and historians of the South to sing this Civil War song with me: "Peas! Peas! Peas! Peas! Eating goober peas! Goodness, how delicious! Eating goober peas!" A goober ...
Recently, I read a Civil War diary in which the author described a group of Confederate soldiers sitting by a road singing a popular folk song titled, “Goober Peas.” “Goodness, how delicious, eating ...
What men sing as they march forth to war is a continual vexation to serious musicians. In the Civil War, Stonewall Jackson’s “foot cavalry” were fond of a song praising goober peas (“Goodness, how ...