Goober Peas

A comic food song about Georgia peanuts, 1866.
words by A. Pindar
music by P. Nutt

At the end of the Civil War food rations in the Confederate Army were pretty poor. The Georgia peanut (goober pea) could be an important supplement to dwindling stores. The credits for authorship are made up. So, it is anonymous.

The sheet music:

Goober-Peas – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by Benjamin R. Tubb:

Goober-Peas – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. Sitting by the roadside on a summer day
    Chatting with my mess mates passing time away
    Lying in the shadow underneath the trees
    Goodness how delicious, eating goober peas

Chorus
Peas! Peas! Peas! Peas! eating goober peas
Goodness how delicious, eating goober peas

  1. When a horseman passes, the soldiers have a rule
    To cry out at their loudest, “Mister here’s your mule”
    But another pleasure enchantinger than these
    Is wearing out your grinders, eating goober peas
  2. Just before the battle the General hears a row
    He says, “the Yanks are coming, I hear their rifles now”
    He turns around in wonder, and what do you think he sees
    The Georgia Militia, eating goober peas
  3. I think my song has lasted almost long enough
    The subject’s interesting, but rhymes are mighty rough
    I wish this war was over when free from rags and fleas
    We’d kiss our wives and sweethearts and gobble goober peas

Sung here by Fred Feild: