polk salad annie

if some of y'all never been down south too much

i'm gonna tell you a little bit about this

so that

you'll understand what i'm talking about

down there we have a plant that grows out

in the woods and the fields

looks something like a turnip green

everybody calls it polk salad. i said polk salad

used to know a girl that lived down there and she'd go out in the evenings and pick a mess of it

carry it home and cook it for supper

'cause that's about all they hat to eat

but they did all right

down in louisiana

where the alligators grow so mean

there lived a girl that i sear to the world

made the alligators look tame

polk salad annie. polk salad annie

everybody said it was a shame

cause her mama was working on the chain-gang

everyday 'fore supper time

she'd go down by the truck patch

and pick her a mess o'polk salad

and carry it home in a tote sack

polk salad annie

'gators got you granny

everybody said it was a shame

'cause her mama was working' on the chain-gang

(a wretched

spiteful

straight-razor totin'

woman

lord have mercy. pick a mess of it)

her daddy was lazy and no count

claimed he had a bad black

all her brothers were fit for was stealin'

watermelons out of my truck patch

polk salad annie

'gators got you granny

everybody said it was a shame

'cause her mama was working' on the chain-gang