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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...