Some of you all never been down South too much...
I` gonna tell you a little story, 
so you`ll understand where 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. 
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, 
`cause 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
What a mean, vicious woman

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
Everybody said it was a shame
`Cause the mama was working on the chain-gang
Whoo, how wretched, dispiteful,
straight-razor totin` woman,
Lord have mercy.

Sock a little Polk salad to him
Yeah, you know what, yeah, yeah

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
For the mama was working on the chain-gang

Sock a little Polk salad to him
You know what meets a meal mention
You sock a little
Hey, hey, hey, yeah, yeah
Chic a bon, chic a bon,
chic a bon bon bon bon
Chic a bon, chic a bon,
chic a bon bon bon bon
Sock a little Polk salad to him
You know what meets a meal mention
Sock a little Polk salad to him
You know what meets a meal mention
Chinc, chinc, chinc,
chin, ling, ling ling