Being a true Son of the South, my favorite beans are butter beans (Baby Lima Beans to you Yankees and furriners)
My favorite peas are pink eyed purple hulls (a type of black eyed peas that are actually
edible) Those are hard to find so I don't get them very often.
And
yes I ate some butter beans today
Butter Beans by Little Jimmy Dickens (To the tune of "Just a Closer Walk with Thee")
Just a bowl of butter beans
Pass the cornbread if you please
I don't want no collard greens
All I want is a bowl of butter beans.
Just a piece of country ham
Pass the butter and the jam
Pass the biscuits if you please
(U.S. biscuits are soft quick bread, somewhat akin to an unsweetened soft scone)
And some more o' them good ol' butter beans.
Red eye gravy is all right
Turnip sandwich a delight
But my children all still scream
For another bowl of butter beans.
Some folks think that cornpones best
Some likes grits more than the rest
But if I was a man of means
I'd just want them good ol' butter beans.
See that Lady over there
With the curlers in her hair
She's not pregnant as she seems
She's just full o' them good ol' butter beans.
When they lay my bones to rest
Place no roses upon my chest
Plant no blooming evergreens
All I want is' a bowl of butter beans.
Just a bowl of butter beans
Pass the cornbread if you please
I don't want no collard greens
All I want is' a bowl of butter beans.