Talk:Found a Peanut

message: 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)
thread_title: Variant lyrics

message: HEY! LET'S DANCE TERMINAL  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.231.65.91 (talk) 04:59, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  BAD ARTICLE! 

message: 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)
thread_title: Erasure of folk knowledge

message: 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)
thread_title: Major Fix up

message: 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)
thread_title: Additional citations

message: 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)
thread_title:  Original research