Polk Salad Annie

Some of you all have been down south too much

Some of you all never been down south too

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 supper time

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

How wretched, dispiteful, straight-razor totin' woman

Lord have mercy

Sock a little Polk salad to him

You know what?

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

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

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