Written by: Tony Joe White
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Lyrics:
If some of ya'll never been down south too much
I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this
So that you'll understand what I'm talkin' about
Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods
And in the fields looks somethin' like a turnip green
And everybody calls it polk salad, polk salad
Used to know a girl lived down there
And she'd go out in the evenings and pick her a mess of it
Carry it home and cook it for supper
'Cause thats about all they had to eat, but they did all right
Down in Louisiana, where the alligators grow so mean
There lived a girl, that I swear to the world
Made the alligators look tame
Polk salad Annie, polk salad Annie
Everybody said it was a shame
Cause her momma was a workin' on the chain gang
A mean vicious woman
Everyday for supper time, she'd go down by the truck patch
And pick her a mess of polk salad, and carry it home in a tow sack
Polk salad Annie, the gators got your granny
Everybody says it was a shame
Cause her momma was a workin' 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 back
All her brothers were fit for was stealin' watermelons
Out of my truck patch
Polk salad Annie, the gators got your granny
Everybody said it was a shame
Cause her momma was a workin' on the chain gang
Sock a little polk salad to me
You know I need me a mess of it
Singers:
1. Tony Joe (billboard hot 100) White October 1968 2. Clarence Reid 1969 3. Tom Jones April 1970 4. Elvis Presley June 1970 5. Kenny Vernon November 1970 6. Top of the Pops June 1973 7. Per 'Elvis' Granberg & The New Jordal Swingers 1973 8. Tommy Overstreet April 1974 9. Gene Rockwell 1975 10. Mr. Fatu 1976 11. Sleepy LaBeef June 15, 1978 12. Dutch Mason Blues Band 1979 13. Joe Dassin 1979 14. Big Twist and The Mellow Fellows 1983 15. Jason & The Scorchers 1985 16. Bo Gumbos January 21, 1994 17. Little Milton June 10, 1994 18. Sean Sennett & The Honey Trap Combo 1994 19. The Juke Joints 1995 20. Billy Branch 1995 21. Jenson Bloomer & Monde Carne 1998 22. Agents & Jorma Kääriäinen 2001 23. Belushi Aykroyd May 20, 2003 24. Gösta Engström & Kavringarna 2004 25. Triple Dynamite January 2007 26. Mean Gene Kelton & The Die Hards August 2007 27. Tony Joe White and Johnny Cash September 2007 28. Tom Green 2007 29. Catedral 2008 30. Los Lonely Boys October 13, 2009 31. Conan O'Brien & The Legally Prohibited Band August 19, 2010 32. Ray Ellis 2010 33. Tony Witt 2012 34. The '64 Falcon 2012 35. James Burton - Amos Garrett - ALbert Lee - David Wilcox May 2015
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