Goober Peas

Dave Guard *

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Nick Reynolds (vocal (solo #2), guitar), Bob Shane (vocal (solo #1), guitar), Dave Guard (vocal, banjo), Buck Wheat (bass) 10-6-00:
    Album: HERE WE GO AGAIN (Original Capitol LP record release) T/ST-1258 - 1959 -- TRACK TIME: (N/A) AMERICAN GOLD Album: KINGSTON TRIO AT LARGE / HERE WE GO AGAIN (Capitol CD re-issue of previously available tracks from THE KINGSTON TRIO and . . . FROM THE HUNGRY I) CDP 7 96749 2 - 1991 -- TRACK TIME: (2:21) Album: THE KINGSTON TRIO: THEIR GREATEST AND FINEST PERFORMANCES (Readers Digest CD re-issue of previously available tracks from assorted Capitol LP albums (1958-1964)) 093C - 1994 -- TRACK TIME: (3:32) Album: THE VERY BEST OF THE KINGSTON TRIO (CEMA Special Markets CD compilation of previously available tracks from Dave Guard and John Stewart Era Trios) CEMA-S21-57942 - 1992 Album: THE GUARD YEARS (Bear Family Records CD re-issue of previously recorded material) BCD 16160 JK - 1997 -- TRACK TIME: (2:23)
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ALBUM NOTES  
The Kingston Trio: Their Greatest Hits and Finest Performances Goober Peas (Traditional; arranged by Guard) Confederate soldiers during the Civil War used to sing this funny song. The phrase "goober peas," originating in the Gullah language spoken by blacks along the coast of Georgia and South Carolina, refers to peanuts- a staple of Southern troops. This recording, featuring a Dave Guard blue-grass banjo solo, is from the Trio's Here We Go Again! LP (1959).

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Who wrote Goober Peas? NOTE: Though the album liner notes for "Here We Go Again" credit Dave Guard with composition, "THE KINGSTON TRIO delux souvenier vocal album" (c) 1964 by Hansen Publications, lists Bill Hansen as the composer of "Goober Peas."
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Goober Peas
Sittin' by the roadside on a summer's day.
Talkin' with my comrades to pass the time away.
Lying in the shade underneath the trees.
Goodness how delicious, eating goober peas.

Chorus:
Peas! Peas! Peas! Peas! Eating goober peas.
Goodness how delicious, eating goober peas.
Peas! Peas! Peas! Peas! Eating goober peas.
Goodness how delicious, eating goober peas.

Just before the battle, the Gen'ral heard a row.
He said, "The Yanks are coming. I hear their rifles now."
He turned around in wonder and what do you think he sees?
The Georgia militia eating goober peas!

Chorus

Think my song has lasted almost long enough.
The subject is most 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 then we'd gobble goober peas

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