What did Tennessee Ernie Ford mean, with: "Bless your pea picken heart?"?
Were these hulled green peas, or goober peas? And is a goober pea, a peanut?
Goobers are peanuts, but I don't think peanuts are a big crop in Tennessee. Probably in Tennessee they spend all day picking green peas. And what do they get? Another day older and deeper in debt.

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Some people say a man is made outta mudA poor man's made outta muscle and bloodMuscle and blood and skin and bonesA mind that's a-weak and a back that's strongYou load sixteen tons, what do you getAnother day older and deeper in debtSaint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't goI owe my soul to the company store
A list of albums and tracks for Sixteen Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford which albums it is on and links to where to find it on Amazon, eMusic, iTunes, Rhapsody and Napster.
As promised a few days ago in the Bared Faced post, I have located the audio of Jon’s tribute to Tennessee Ernie Ford’s hit Sixteen Tons.
Amazing Grace [VHS]: For the first time on home video, classic hymns and songs of faith from The Ford Show, Erni...
wilda bought me CD Tennessee Ernie Ford, I think it's 183. Extended.
@ Here's the song they were singing, if you're curious
Wind Will Carry Us and Tennessee Ernie Ford are knotted up...
ollie bought me CD Tennessee Ernie Ford, I think it's disobedient.
Sixteen tons
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Lp cover released 1957. (Stetson reissue 80's)
Tennessee Ernie Ford Steak n' Biscuits. Nashville, TN.