Polk Salad Annie-Tony Joe White

[ti:Polk Salad Annie] [ar:Tony Joe White] [al:Rhino HiFive - Tony Joe White ] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Polk Salad Annie - Tony Joe White [00:13.78]If some of ya'll never been down south too much [00:16.21]I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this [00:18.27]So that you'll understand what I'm talking about [00:22.89]Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods [00:24.95]And in the fields looks something like a turnip green [00:28.71]And everybody calls it polk salad polk salad [00:38.75]Used to know a girl lived down there [00:40.44]And she'd go out in the evenings and pick her a mess of it [00:43.81]Carry it home and cook it for supper [00:46.54]'Cause thats about all they had to eat but they did all right [00:53.16]Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean [01:00.25]There lived a girl that I swear to the world [01:03.87]Made the alligators look tame [01:06.55]Polk salad Annie polk salad Annie [01:14.41]Everybody said it was a shame [01:17.97]Cause her momma was a working on the chain gang [01:23.59](A mean vicious woman) [01:29.58] [01:33.19]Everyday 'fore supper time she'd go down by the truck patch [01:40.43]And pick her a mess of polk salad and carry it home in a tow sack [01:46.98]Polk salad Annie the gators got your granny [01:54.85]Everybody says it was a shame [01:58.15]Cause her momma was a working on the chain gang [02:04.08]A wretched spiteful straight-razor toting woman [02:09.88]Lord have Mercy pick a mess of it [02:21.62] [02:33.35]Her daddy was lazy and no count claimed he had a bad back [02:40.71]All her brothers were fit for was stealing watermelons [02:44.14]Out of my truck patch [02:47.14]Polk salad Annie the gators got your granny [02:54.69]Everybody said it was a shame [02:58.18]Cause her momma was a working on the chain gang [03:03.86] [03:09.10]Sock a little polk salad to me you know I need me a mess of it [03:15.64]Come on good girl [03:24.56]Gotta help me