Some of you all
never been down
South too much
Some of you all
never been down
South too much
I wanna tell you
a little story
so that you understand
what I'm talking about
Down there we have
a plant that grows
out in the woods
and fields
And it looks something
like a turnip green
Everybody calls it
Polk salad
now that's Polk salad
Used to know a girl
who lived down there
And she'd go out in
the evenings and pick
a mess of it and
carry it home and
cook it for supper
'Cause that's about
all they had to eat
but they did alright
Down in Louisiana
Where the alligators
rule so mean
Lived a girl that I
swear to the world
made the alligator
look tame
Polk salad Annie
'Gators got your granny
Everybody said
it was a shame
'cause your mama was
working on the chain-gang
A mean vicious woman
Every day before
supper time
she'd go down by
the truck patch
Pick her a mess
of old Polk salad
and carry it home
in a tote sack
now Polk salad Annie
'Gators got your granny
Everybody said it
was a shame
'cause your mama was
working on the chain-gang
A wretched
spiteful
straight-razor totin'
woman
Lord have mercy
Sock a little Polk
salad to me
you know I need
a meal
Her daddy was a lazy
no-count
claimed he had a
bad back
All of her brothers
were fit for stealing
watermelons out
of my truck
yeah Polk salad Annie
'Gators got your granny
Everybody said it
was a shame
'cause your mama was
working on the chain-gang
Sock a little Polk
salad to me
you know I need
a meal missy
Sock a little Polk
salad
Sock a little Polk
salad to me
you know I need
a meal missy
Sock a little Polk salad
you know I need a meal
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