Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Polk Salad Annie, artist - James Burton. Date of issue: 14.11.2019
Song language: English
Polk Salad Annie |
| 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) |