Polk Salad Annie (Live)-Tony Joe White

Polk Salad Annie - Tony Joe White If some of ya'll never been Down south too much I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this So that you'll understand What I'm talking about Down there we have a plant That grows out in the woods And in the fields looks something 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 momma was A working on the chain gang (A mean vicious woman) Everyday '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 Everybody says it was a shame Cause her momma was A working on the chain gang (A wretched spiteful Straight-razor toting woman Lord have Mercy pick a mess of it) Her daddy was lazy and no count Claimed he had a bad back 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 momma was a working On the chain gang Sock a little polk salad to me You know I need me a mess of it Come on good girl Gotta help me All to all