Polk Salad Annie

SPOKEN:

Now for those of you've never been down the Tony Joe White country, never been at South...

I'll tell you a little bit about it so but you can't understand what is this

I'm talking about, yeah

Down there they got a plant grows out in the woods and the fields,

grows up a long side the rocks and the trees

And 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 herself a little bit of it...

Carry it home and cook it for supper, 'cause that's about all they had to eat, they did all right.

I said 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

Polk salad Annie

Everybody said it was a shame

For the mama was working on the chain-gang

She was a mean, vicious woman

Everyday before suppertime

She'd go down by the truck patch

And pick herself 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

Because her mama was working on the chain-gang

Whoo, how wretched, despiteful, straight-razor totin' woman,

Now, give me some Polk salad. Give me some.

Her 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 thought it was a shame

Because her 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