Polk Salad Annie - Elvis Live Version

[00:24.71] Some of you all never been down south too much
[00:28.39] Some of you all never down south too...
[00:30.56] I' gonna tell you a little story, so you'll understand where I'm talking about
[00:35.57] Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods and the fields
[00:38.94] And it looks something like a turnip green
[00:42.11] Everybody calls it Polk salad
[00:47.58] Now that's polk salad
[00:54.31] Used to know a girl that lived down there and she'd go out in the evenings and pick a mess of it
[00:59.83] Carry it home and cook it for supper, 'cause that's about all they had to eat
[01:05.84] But they did all right
[01:11.14] Down in Louisiana
[01:13.52] Where the alligators grow so mean
[01:16.65] Lived a girl that I swear to the world
[01:20.68] Made the alligators look tame
[01:22.94] Polk salad Annie
[01:26.16] 'Gators got your granny
[01:30.05] Everybody said it was a shame
[01:33.29] For the mama was-a-working on the chain-gang
[01:38.32] A mean, vicious woman
[01:47.56] Everyday before suppertime
[01:50.17] She'd go down by the truck patch
[01:53.85] And pick her a mess of Polk salad
[01:57.07] And carry it home in a tote sack
[01:59.90] Polk salad Annie
[02:03.08] 'Gators got you granny
[02:06.63] Everybody said it was a shame
[02:09.80] 'Cause the mama was working on the chain-gang
[02:13.77] How wretched, spiteful, straight-razor totin' woman
[02:21.45] Lord have mercy
[02:26.73] Sock a little Polk salad to him
[02:47.30] But daddy was a lazy and no-count
[02:50.25] Claimed he had a bad back
[02:53.62] All her brothers were fit for
[02:56.57] Was stealing watermelons out of my truck
[02:59.41] For once Polk salad Annie
[03:02.87] 'Gators got your granny
[03:06.59] Everybody said it was a shame
[03:09.69] For the mama was-a-working on the chain-gang
[03:19.48] You sock a little Polk salad to him
[03:22.81] You know what meets a meal...
[03:26.23] You sock a little
[03:49.72] (Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon)
[03:53.42] (Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon)
[03:55.78] Sock a little Polk salad to him (chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon)
[03:58.91] You know what meets a meal mention (chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon)
[04:02.16] Sock a little Polk salad to him (chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon)
[04:05.26] You know what meets a meal... (chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon)
[04:09.95] Chinc, chinc, chinc, chin (chic a bon, chic a bon)
[04:11.55] Chinc, chinc, chinc, chin, ling, ling ling (chic a bon bon bon bon)
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[04:18.24] Chinc, chinc, chinc, chin (chic a bon bon bon bon)
[04:19.89] Chinc, chinc, chinc, chin (Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon)
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