Elvis Presley - Polk Salad Annie Lyrics
(words & music by tony joe white)Some of you all never been down south too much...I gonna tell you a little story, so youll understand where Im talking aboutDown 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 thats polk salad.Used to know a girl that lived down there andShed go out in the evenings to pick a mess of it...Carry it home and cook it for supper, cause thats about all they had to eat,But they did all right.Down in louisianaWhere the alligators grow so meanLived a girl that I swear to the worldMade the alligators look tamePolk salad anniegators got your grannyEverybody said it was a shameFor the mama was working on the chain-gangWhat a mean, vicious womanEveryday before suppertimeShed go down by the truck patchAnd pick her a mess of polk saladAnd carry it home in a tote sackPolk salad anniegators got you grannyEverybody said it was a shamecause the mama was working on the chain-gangWhoo, how wretched, dispiteful, straight-razor totin woman,Lord have mercy.Sock a little polk salad to himYeah, you know what, yeah, yeahBut daddy was a lazy and a no-countClaimed he had a bad backAll her brothers were fit forWas stealing watermelons out of my truckFor once polk salad anniegators got your grannyEverybody said it was a shameFor the mama was working on the chain-gangSock a little polk salad to himYou know what meets a meal mentionYou sock a littleHey, hey, hey, yeah, yeahChic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bonChic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bonSock a little polk salad to himYou know what meets a meal mentionSock a little polk salad to himYou know what meets a meal mentionChinc, chinc, chinc, chin, ling, ling ling
