If you ever get down south You can find some good things to put in your mouth If you got you a woman cooking for you all the time And I know you can be satisfied Everything she's got for you is southern fried Will make your mouth water Will make you fall down upon your knees I love to have my own blackeyed peas I love to have my own blackened peas She can cook up mustard greens Corn on the cob and lima beans Pumpkin pie she can boil a possum if it were dead She can cook up chicken pot steak And peach cobbler and devil food cake She knows how the blackeyed peas go to my head I love to have my own blackeyed peas I love to have my own blackened peas Now my woman don't do no bitchin' 'Cause she spends so much time in the kitchen Only one other room in the house she better in That's because of her sweet love It's even better than her grub Love grub with my southern fried blackeyed peas I love to have my own blackeyed peas I love to have my own blackened peas With a black-eyed woman whose a black-eyed tease