Polk Salad Annie (Album Version)-Tony Joe White

[00:01.05]Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie [00:04.29] [00:09.42] [00:13.35]If some of ya'll never been down south too much [00:15.07]I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this [00:16.80]So that you'll understand what I'm talking about [00:22.23]Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods [00:24.28]And in the fields looks something like a turnip green [00:28.29]And everybody calls it polk salad, polk salad [00:38.34]Used to know a girl lived down there [00:39.79]And she'd go out in the evenings and pick her a mess of it [00:41.77]Carry it home and cook it for supper [00:45.71]'Cause thats about all they had to eat, but they did all right [00:51.47] [00:52.72]Down in Louisiana, where the alligators grow so mean [00:59.90]There lived a girl, that I swear to the world [01:03.88]Made the alligators look tame [01:06.50]Polk salad Annie, polk salad Annie [01:13.97]Everybody said it was a shame [01:17.87]Cause her momma was a working on the chain gang [01:22.31]（A mean vicious woman） [01:26.05] [01:33.09]Everyday 'fore supper time, she'd go down by the truck patch [01:40.21]And pick her a mess of polk salad, and carry it home in a tow sack [01:47.02]Polk salad Annie, the gators got your granny [01:54.42]Everybody says it was a shame [01:57.99]Cause her momma was a working on the chain gang [02:01.78]（A wretched, spiteful, straight-razor toting woman [02:09.48]Lord have Mercy, pick a mess of it） [02:13.49] [02:33.14]Her daddy was lazy and no count, claimed he had a bad back [02:40.20]All her brothers were fit for was stealing watermelons [02:44.93]Out of my truck patch [02:46.78]Polk salad Annie, the gators got your granny [02:53.58]Everybody said it was a shame [02:58.15]Cause her momma was a working on the chain gang [03:02.56] [03:08.54]Sock a little polk salad to me, you know I need me a mess of it [03:16.69]Come on good girl [03:19.49] [03:26.99]Gotta help me [03:29.22]