Polk Salad Annie

Standard tuning.

Intro and verse:

(Bass arg. for guitar)

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Intro and verse:

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(Intro riff, Bass and Guitar1)

Some of you all never been down South too much...

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.

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Down in Louisiana

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Where the alligators grow so mean

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Lived a girl that I swear to the world

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Made the alligators look tame

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Polk salad Annie

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'Gators got your granny

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Everybody said it was a shame

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For the mama was working on the chain-gang

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What a mean, vicious woman

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Everyday before suppertime

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She'd go down by the truck patch

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And pick her a mess of Polk salad

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And carry it home in a tote sack

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Polk salad Annie

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'Gators got you granny

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Everybody said it was a shame

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'Cause the mama was working on the chain-gang

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Whoo, how wretched, dispiteful, straight-razor totin' woman,

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Lord have mercy.

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Sock a little Polk salad to him

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Yeah, you know what, yeah, yeah

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But daddy was a lazy and a no-count

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Claimed he had a bad back

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All her brothers were fit for

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Was stealing watermelons out of my truck

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For once Polk salad Annie

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'Gators got your granny

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Everybody said it was a shame

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For the mama was working on the chain-gang

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Sock a little Polk salad to him

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You know what meets a meal mention

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You sock a little

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Hey, hey, hey, yeah, yeah

(Intro riff Bass and Guitar 1)

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Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon

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Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon

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Sock a little Polk salad to him

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You know what meets a meal mention

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Sock a little Polk salad to him

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You know what meets a meal mention

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Chinc, chinc, chinc, chin, ling, ling ling