Polk Salad Annie

Some you all never been down South too much
I'm 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

Down in Louisiana
Where the alligators grow so mean
Lived a girl that I swear to the world
Made the alligators look tame

Polk salad Annie
'Gators got your granny
Everybody said it was a shame
For the mama was working on the chain-gang
What a mean, vicious woman
Yeah!

Everyday before suppertime
She'd go down by the truck patch
And pick her a mess of Polk salad
And carry it home in a tote sack

Polk salad Annie
'Gators got you granny
Everybody said it was a shame
Because the mama was working on the chain-gang
Lord have messy
He sock a little Polk salad to me
You know what need a meal mention

But daddy was a lazy and no-account
Claimed he had a bad back
All her brothers were fit for
Was stealing watermelons out of my truck

For once Polk salad Annie
'Gators got your granny
Everybody said it was a shame
Because the mama was working on the chain-gang

He sock a little Polk salad to me
You know what need a meal mention
You sock a little (hey, hey, hey, yeah, yeah)

(Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon bon bon)
(Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon bon bon)

Sock a little Polk salad to me
You know what need a meal mention
Sock a little Polk salad you know what need
(Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon bon bon)
(Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon bon bon)

Thank you I'll be over there
Thank you very much
Just give me little time to breathe
What you get on your mind
Thank you
Don't get physical
I want to kiss you
You already have it
Hang loss every body