Talk:Found a Peanut

Variant lyrics[edit]

Walking to the gents at a folk festival this summer I passed the children's playground. It was about 10pm, so I couldn't see much of the kids there in the dark, but what I could tell was that there were a number of girls aged (at a guess) 13-15, singing this song. The only verses I heard were late in the song, and had the variant lines:

Shagged an angel
Sent to hell
Shot the devil

Ah, kids.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.40.46.87 (talk) 13:29, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ain't gonna get no sources for this, I don't think. However I do remember it from my y00f. Over in the UK is was "yesterday" rather than "last night" (I think it scans better). Last time I heard it in class it was a punching offense. Closer to http://www.geocities.com/guide_camp/campfire.html anyway. 86.7.20.47 (talk) 00:51, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The version I learned was 'just now.' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CF99:2080:2010:1872:A626:ED15 (talk) 23:41, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

BAD ARTICLE![edit]

HEY! LET'S DANCE TERMINAL —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.231.65.91 (talk) 04:59, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to me you just don't like this article. That is not a good reason to delete. Also see my arguments below.Rusl (talk) 06:57, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I half take it back... I too feel like deleting this right now because its hard to work on. However, the best things in life are difficult including this stupid song.Rusl (talk) 08:30, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Erasure of folk knowledge[edit]

This is NOT a copyrighted song. This is NOT a topic outside the scope of wikipedia. Folk songs that have multiple variants are very interesting. I *would* take offence if this were my article. It's not an article of only lyrics. It does need to be improved significantly but so do many articles not considered for deleting. Wikipedia is a work in progress and just because an article is weak in some areas is not grounds for deletion. citing those reasons above and a lack of any real argument for deletion here I'm going to remove the delete banner. You can re-apply it if you first make an argument for deletion. I also propose changing or deleting the deletion banner because that thing is really not constructive and banners should not be so biased like that. I don't know enough of how banners work to change that however.Rusl (talk) 06:58, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Major Fix up[edit]

I've tried to salvage and organise this article a lot but I'm giving up for the night. This is a hard one to do because it really is a topic that lends itself to "original research" which is so difficult for wikipedia to deal with.

 I sympathize. When I learned the song as a kid in Florida in the 1950s, the lyric went, "Said I wouldn't die, said I wouldn't die....Died anyway, died anyway....  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.82.125.102 (talk) 19:45, 5 September 2012 (UTC) [reply]

The more immediate problem is I can't seem to format properly. I'd like the lyrics all italicised and indented like a block quote. It seems one might have to go through each line individually and do break tags, italicisation, the colon... every single line. Too much.

Also, a lot of the variations of the song are quite similar... one could almost imagine a table which has the different version of the same thing all listed - something that would take up a lot less space as the structure of the song is so simple anyway. But there are enough quirky variations that I can't easily right now do that all. Maybe another day.

Please pick up where I've left off! Thanks. Rusl (talk) 08:35, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Additional citations[edit]

Why and where does this article need additional citations for verification? What references does it need and how should they be added? Hyacinth (talk) 07:29, 10 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Original research[edit]

I learnt the song in 1964 when I was 14. I was at an adults' party and felt very isolated. An old man took me aside and sang this song. He was a World War I veteran and said they had sung this in the trenches. To me the song seemed to bring home the fact that the greater part of trench warfare life was the unutterable boredom. To be sung in a very flat, expressionless voice:

Found a peanut ...

Where'd you find it? ...

In the dustbin ...

What'd it taste like? ...

Tasted awful ...

[Pause of several second, or hours, or days]

Found another ...

[Song continues ad infinitum] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Djbcjk (talk • contribs) 23:16, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]