"Sweet Potatoes," Pete Seeger. On his Carnegie Hall concert set. Anyone have this one?

Many southerners call this tuber a yam. This may be the reason there are so few songs about the 'sweet potato.' It appears mostly in minstrel songs.

This one ain't it:
"Chicken Reel," 1911.
Way down in Carolina where the sweet potatoes grow
There lives a dusky maiden by the name of Liza Snow. Ect.
American Memory and Levy Sheet Music.

About genuine potatoes:

Tis my last, last potato!
Yet boldly I stand
With the calmness of cato
My fork in my hand.
Not one in the basket
Must you also go?
(With sorrow I ask it
Shall I peel ye or no?)
Tune- The Last Rose of Summer. "My Last Potato," at American Memory.

And "Nelly Bly"-

Nellie Bly hab a voice like de turtle-dove
I hears it in de meadow and I hears it in the grove
Nelly Bly hab a heart as warm as a cup of tea
And bigger dan the sweet potato down in Tennessee.
(A deathless bit of composition)