Karaoké Polk Salad Annie Tony Joe White

Now some of y'all never been down south too much

I'm gonna tell ya a little bit about this

So that ya'll understand what I'm talkin' 'bout

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

Looks somethin' like a turnip green 'an everybody calls it

Polk Salad

Polk Salad uh

Used to know a girl lived down there

And she'd go out in the evenin's and pick her a mess of it

Carry it home 'n cook it for supper

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

And down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean

There lived a girl that I swear to the world made alligators look tame

Polk Salad Annie

Polk Salad Annie

Everybody said it was a shame

'Cos her momma was a-workin' on a chain gang

A mean vicious woman uh

Now every day 'fore supper time

She'd go down by the truck patch

And pick her a mess of Polk Salad and carry it home in a tow sack

Polk Salad Annie

The 'gators got your granny chomp, chomp, chomp 'N everybody said it was a shame

'Cos her momma was a-workin' on a chain gang

A wretched spiteful straight razor totin' woman he he

Lord have mercy pick my mess of it

Uh

Her daddy was lazy and no 'count claim he had a bad back

All her brothers were fit for was stealin' watermelons outta my truck patch

Polk Salad Annie

The 'gators got your granny oh hoo hoo hoo

Everybody said it was a shame 'cos her momma was a-workin' on a chain gang

Sock a little Polk Salad to me know I need a mean mess of it

A whoa hoo hoo

Oh, good God

A whoa hoo hoo

Ta uh, uh, uh, uh uh uh uh

Got to have me ate her up, ah uh