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Season 5 episode titled "Article Two," Patton Oswalt plays Garth
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The lyrics of "Goober Peas" are a description of daily life during the latter part of the Civil War for
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Season 3 Episode 3 "Alicia", Mike is made to kneel and sing "Goober Peas" by Jonah in order to not publish a compromising story.
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Reverend Wayland Fuller Dunaway recorded a stanza of the song he heard while imprisoned at the Union prison on
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Our rations they are scanty, 'tis cold enough to freeze,—
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He says "The Yanks are coming, I hear their rifles now."
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I wish the war was over, so free from rags and fleas
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