Found a Peanut

DESCRIPTION: "Found a peanut, found a peanut, found a peanut on the ground" (x2). "Cracked it open, cracked it open, cracked it open, just now." "It was rotten." "Ate it anyway." The singer may then call the doctor, die, go to heaven, get thrown out, start over....
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1973 (NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal)
KEYWORDS: food death humorous derivative campsong
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Pankake/Pankake-PrairieHomeCompanionFolkSongBook, pp. 28-29, "Found a Peanut" (1 text, tune referenced)
NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal, Gloria Dickens, "Childhood Songs from North Carolina" Vol. XXI, No. 1 (Apr 1973), p. 6, "(Found a peanut, found a peanut)" (1 text)
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, pp. 163, 390, 395, "Found a Peanut" (notes only)
Roud #12779
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Clementine" (tune) and references there
File: NCF211FP

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