The Peanut Poem

George Carver he was born a slave In the Deep South, when freed He made it as a scientist A man born to succeed He knew his peanuts inside out: Here's uses that he found: Soups and soaps and candy Peanuts smooth and ground Coatings for sweet potatoes Coffee and milk for cooking Mock fried chicken, bran and meal Feed to keep hens laying Oil, hay, dyes and colourants Wood stains, paper too Medicines, face creams, fibre, Axle grease, and glue Paint and ink. Insecticides. He pulled out all the stops Flour, paste, insulation, Shaving cream and crops Antiseptics, laxatives A treatment for a goiter Mayonnaise and Worcestershire Sauce Chop Suey Sauce, Mock Oyster Mock Goose, Mock Duck, Mock Chicken Mock Veal, Curds, vinegar Peanut Sausage, Chocolate Fudge Caramel, Washing Powder Tutti Frutti, Butterscotch, Lard Compound, Cheese Nut Sage Sweet Pickle, Golden Nuts, Cheese Cream And peanut beverage Substitute Asparagus Laxatives and Cosmetics Cheese Pimento, peanut punch Wood Filler, Polish, Plastics Pickle, plain and cocoa Evaporated Milk Peanut Wafers, rubbing oil Shampoos smooth as silk Iron tonic, tannic acid Bleach and tan remover Emulsion for bronchitis And soil conditioner Shoe and leather blacking Mock castor and quinine A VD cure emollient Fuel bricketts, gasoline Oil for hair and oil for scalp Baby Massage Cream Dandruff cure and toilet soap Gas and glycerine Printers Ink and rubber Diesel fuel too on the scene Linoleum and wall boards Nitroglycerine