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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Easy peasy! (No pun inteneded)
Borrowed word from one of the African languages, brought over by the slave trade. Peanuts were a food staple for the slaves and they used their word for it. The slave owners corrupted it into 'goober.' One of the first folk songs I learned to play on the guitar!
Sitting by the roadside on a summer's day
Chatting with my mess-mates, passing time away
Lying in the shadows underneath the trees
Goodness, how delicious, eating goober peas.
Stitchawl
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Yes. Of African origin entering southern use from slaves. In the latter part of the Civil War boiled peanuts were often all Confederate soldiers had to eat and that song became popular among them. It has been a folk music staple ever since.
So that's one point for Dreams and two for Stichawl.