Polk Salad Annie

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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