Polk Salad Annie (Album Version)-Tony Joe White

[ti:Polk Salad Annie] [ar:Tony Joe White] [al:The Best Of Tony Joe White Featuring "Polk Salad Annie"] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Polk Salad Annie (波尔沙拉安妮) (Album Version) - Tony Joe White [00:16.41]If some of ya'll never been [00:17.55]Down south too much [00:18.29]I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this [00:19.94]So that you'll understand [00:20.64]What I'm talking about [00:21.79] [00:25.05]Down there we have a plant [00:26.12]That grows out in the woods [00:27.19]And in the fields looks something [00:28.99]Like a turnip green [00:30.22] [00:31.25]And everybody calls it polk salad [00:34.15]Polk salad [00:35.27] [00:41.18]Used to know a girl lived down there [00:42.64]And she'd go out in the evenings [00:43.92]And pick her a mess of it [00:45.81]Carry it home and cook it for supper [00:47.70] [00:48.84]'Cause that's about all they had to eat [00:50.87] [00:52.56]But they did all right [00:53.88] [00:55.78]Down in Louisiana [00:58.22]Where the alligators grow so mean [01:01.51] [01:02.89]There lived a girl that I swear to the world [01:06.07] [01:06.74]Made the alligators look tame [01:08.96] [01:09.76]Polk salad Annie polk salad Annie [01:14.37] [01:17.13]Everybody said it was a shame [01:19.72] [01:20.72]Cause her momma was [01:21.81]A working on the chain gang [01:24.18] [01:26.07](A mean vicious woman) [01:27.76] [01:35.89]Everyday 'fore supper time [01:38.59] [01:39.29]She'd go down by the truck patch [01:41.98] [01:43.17]And pick her a mess of polk salad [01:45.63] [01:46.68]And carry it home in a tow sack [01:49.97]Polk salad Annie [01:51.59] [01:53.13]The gators got your granny [01:54.79] [01:57.36]Everybody says it was a shame [02:00.97]Cause her momma was [02:01.82]A working on the chain gang [02:04.00] [02:06.25]A wretched spiteful [02:08.65]Straight-razor toting woman [02:10.55] [02:12.45]Lord have Mercy pick a mess of it [02:14.86] [02:36.08]Her daddy was lazy and no count [02:38.51] [02:39.45]Claimed he had a bad back [02:41.81] [02:43.26]All her brothers were fit [02:45.33]For was stealing watermelons [02:47.62]Out of my truck patch [02:49.58]Polk salad Annie [02:51.68] [02:53.15]The gators got your granny [02:55.34] [02:57.45]Everybody said it was a shame [03:00.02] [03:00.97]Cause her momma was a working [03:02.56]On the chain gang [03:04.19] [03:11.53]Sock a little polk salad to me [03:14.06] [03:15.09]You know I need me a mess of it [03:17.52] [03:18.19]Come on good girl [03:21.51] [03:30.59]Gotta help me [03:31.88] [03:33.58]All to all