Joe Da**in - Polk Salad Annie lyrics

Now for those of you Who never been down to Tony Joe White country Never been ... (?) I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this so that you'll Understand what it is I'm talkin' about ... yeah Down there they got a plant That grows out in the woods, And in the field Grows up the long side on the rocks In the trees And everybody calls it polk salad That's polk salad And I used to know a girl lived down there She'd go out in the evenings And pick herself a little bit of it And she carried it home And cook it for supper Cause that's about all they had to eat But they did all right I said down in Lou'siana Where the alligators grow so mean Lived a girl who swear to the world Made the alligators look tame Salad Annie, Polk Salad Annie Everybody said it was a shame Because her mama was a workin on the chain gang She was a mean, vicious woman Every day 'fore suppertime She'd go down by the truck patch And pick herself a mess o' pokl salad And carry it home in a tote sack Polk Salad Annie, gators got your granny Everybody said it was a shame Because her mama was a workin on the chain gang A wretched, spiteful, straight razor totin' woman! Now give me some polk salad, give me some Her daddy was lazy and no count He claimed he had a bad back And all the brothers were fit for Was stealin watermelons out of my truck patch Polk Salad Annie, gators got your granny Everybody told it was a shame Cause her mama was a workin on the chain gang Sock a little polk salad I need me a mess of it, sock a little...