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 ...

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 ...