Goodness, how delicious, eating goober peas! It lacks the stirring power of the Battle Cry of Freedom. It's not as enduring as When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As far as Civil War songs go ...

Those trying times were set to a jaunty tune in the 1866 song “Goober Peas” that not only tips a hat to the Georgia militia’s love of peanuts, but spread the gospel of goober-eating around ...

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 ...

Local peanut farmers say this season's crop of "goober peas" is looking tasty. According to Wikipedia, the folk song "Goober Peas," written in 1866, described the daily life of Southerners during ...

In the Civil War, Stonewall Jackson’s “foot cavalry” were fond of a song praising goober peas (“Goodness, how delicious, eating goober peas!”); while the inconsequential battle hymn of ...