Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peanuts growing in field - Busra İspir/Getty Images Wartime songs, or "ditties" (an old-fashioned term for poems with catchy tunes ...

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 the ...

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 ...