POLK SALAD ANNIE

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

I'm gonna tell you a little about this so that you'll

Understand what I'm talkin' about...

To understand what we talking about

Down there we have a plant that grows like a turnip green

And everybody calls it polk salad... polk salad

Used to know a girl lived down there and she'd go out

In the evenings and pick her a mess of it, carry it

Home and cook it for supper, cause that's about all they

Had to eat, but they did all right.

Down in Louisiana,

Where the alligators grow so mean,

There lived a girl that

I swear to the world,

Made the alligators look tame

Polk Salad Annie

Polk Salad Annie

Everybody said it was a shame

Cause her mama was a working on the chain gang

I mean, vicious

Her daddy was lazy and no count

Claimed he had a bad back

And all her brothers were fit for

Was stealing watermelons out of my truck patch

Polk Salad Annie

The gators got your granny

Everybody said it was a shame

Cause her mama was a working on the chain gang

A wretched, spiteful ((?))

Every day 'fore suppertime

She'd go down by the truck patch

And pick her a mess o' polk salad

And carry it home in a tote sack

Polk Salad Annie

The gators got your granny

Everybody said it was a shame

Cause her Mama was a working on the chain gang

Sock a little polk salad to me

You know I need me a mess of it

Sock a little polk

Sock a little ah ah ah

Sock a little oh oh oh

Sock a little ah ah ah ah ah ah

Polk Salad Annie

Polk Salad Annie

The gators got your granny

Polk Salad Annie

Polk Salad Annie

The gators got your granny