Karaoké Polk Salad Annie (live 1970) Elvis Presley

Some of y'all never been down South too much

Some of y'all never been down South too much

I'm gonna tell you a little story so you'll understand what I'm talking about

Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods and the fields

And it looks something like a turnip green everybody calls it Polk salad

Now that's Polk salad

Lord have mercy used to know a girl that lived down there and she'd go out in the evenings to

Pick a mess of it carry it home and cook it for supper

'Cos that's about all they had to eat but they did all right

Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean

Lived a girl that

I swear to the world made the alligators look tame

Polk salad Annie 'gators got your granny

Everybody said it was a shame

For the mama was working on the chain-gang

A mean vicious woman, oh

Everyday before suppertime she'd go down by the truck patch

And pick her a mess of Polk salad and carry it home in a tote sack

Polk salad Annie 'gators got you granny

Ooh ooh ooh

Everybody said it was a shame

Because the mama was working on the chain-gang

How wretched, dispiteful straight-razor totin' woman

Lord have mercy, ooh

Sock a little Polk salad to him you know what

But daddy was a lazy and a no-count claimed he had a bad back

All her brothers were fit for was stealing watermelons out of my truck

For once Polk salad Annie 'gators got your granny

Everybody said it was a shame

Because mama was working on the chain-gang

Oh

Sock a little Polk salad to him you know what means a meal mention sock a little

Hey

Sock a little Polk salad to him you know what means a meal mention

Sock a little Polk salad you know what means a meal

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