[05:09.00]Polk Salad Annie - Tony Joe White
[05:09.00]If some of ya'll never been
[05:09.00]Down south too much
[05:09.00]I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this
[05:09.00]So that you'll understand
[05:09.00]What I'm talking about
[05:09.00]Down there we have a plant
[05:09.00]That grows out in the woods
[05:09.00]And in the fields looks something
[05:09.00]Like a turnip green
[05:09.00]And everybody calls it polk salad
[05:09.00]Polk salad
[05:09.00]Used to know a girl lived down there
[05:09.00]And she'd go out in the evenings
[05:09.00]And pick her a mess of it
[05:09.00]Carry it home and cook it for supper
[05:09.00]'Cause that's about all they had to eat
[05:09.00]But they did all right
[05:09.00]Down in Louisiana
[05:09.00]Where the alligators grow so mean
[05:09.00]There lived a girl that I swear to the world
[05:09.00]Made the alligators look tame
[05:09.00]Polk salad Annie polk salad Annie
[05:09.00]Everybody said it was a shame
[05:09.00]Cause her momma was
[05:09.00]A working on the chain gang
[05:09.00](A mean vicious woman)
[05:09.00]Everyday 'fore supper time
[05:09.00]She'd go down by the truck patch
[05:09.00]And pick her a mess of polk salad
[05:09.00]And carry it home in a tow sack
[05:09.00]Polk salad Annie
[05:09.00]The gators got your granny
[05:09.00]Everybody says it was a shame
[05:09.00]Cause her momma was
[05:09.00]A working on the chain gang
[05:09.00](A wretched spiteful
[05:09.00]Straight-razor toting woman
[05:09.00]Lord have Mercy pick a mess of it)
[05:09.00]Her daddy was lazy and no count
[05:09.00]Claimed he had a bad back
[05:09.00]All her brothers were fit
[05:09.00]For was stealing watermelons
[05:09.00]Out of my truck patch
[05:09.00]Polk salad Annie
[05:09.00]The gators got your granny
[05:09.00]Everybody said it was a shame
[05:09.00]Cause her momma was a working
[05:09.00]On the chain gang
[05:09.00]Sock a little polk salad to me
[05:09.00]You know I need me a mess of it
[05:09.00]Come on good girl
[05:09.00]Gotta help me
[05:09.00]All to all